Biological Specimen Banks
"Biological Specimen Banks" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Facilities that collect, store, and distribute tissues, e.g., cell lines, microorganisms, blood, sperm, milk, breast tissue, for use by others. Other uses may include transplantation and comparison of diseased tissues in the identification of cancer.
| Descriptor ID |
D018070
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.065
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| Concept/Terms |
Biological Specimen Banks- Biological Specimen Banks
- Specimen Banks, Biological
- Bank, Biological Substance
- Banks, Biological Substance
- Biological Specimen Bank
- Substance Bank, Biological
- Substance Banks, Biological
- Biological Substance Banks
- Bank, Biological Specimen
- Banks, Biological Specimen
- Specimen Bank, Biological
- Biological Substance Bank
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biological Specimen Banks" by people in Profiles.
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Multi-biobank summary data Mendelian randomisation does not support a causal effect of IL-6 signalling on risk of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Eur Respir J. 2024 Apr; 63(4).
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Phenotype integration improves power and preserves specificity in biobank-based genetic studies of major depressive disorder. Nat Genet. 2023 Dec; 55(12):2082-2093.
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Scaling the discrete-time Wright-Fisher model to biobank-scale datasets. Genetics. 2023 11 01; 225(3).
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Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries. Nature. 2023 Oct; 622(7984):775-783.
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Large-scale plasma proteomics comparisons through genetics and disease associations. Nature. 2023 Oct; 622(7982):348-358.
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Biological Time Travel: Tracking the Journey of Alloreactive T Cells Through Longitudinal Biobanking. Transplantation. 2023 09 01; 107(9):1862-1864.
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Chronic pain and premature mortality in men and women, using data from UK Biobank. Reply. J Clin Invest. 2023 03 01; 133(5).
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Association between adverse childhood experiences and later-life allostatic load in UK Biobank female participants. Womens Health (Lond). 2023 Jan-Dec; 19:17455057231184325.
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Novel genotyping algorithms for rare variants significantly improve the accuracy of Applied Biosystems™ Axiom™ array genotyping calls: Retrospective evaluation of UK Biobank array data. PLoS One. 2022; 17(11):e0277680.
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Genome-wide association analyses of common infections in a large practice-based biobank. BMC Genomics. 2022 Sep 27; 23(1):672.