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 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biological Specimen Banks" by people in Profiles.
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Childhood cancer predisposition study: a prospective registry and biorepository protocol. BMJ Open. 2026 08 05; 16(8):e120576.
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Development of an Integrated Monogenic and Polygenic Risk Assessment Tool for Coronary Artery Disease and Its Application in a Community-Based Health Care Biobank. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2026 Jun; 19(3):e005494.
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Monogenic and Polygenic Risk for Kidney Cancer in Two Large Biobanks. Eur Urol Oncol. 2026 Jun; 9(3):638-644.
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Using large biobanks for psychiatric genomic research: Consistency of clinical and genetic aspects of recorded depression across US states in the All of Us Research Program. Psychol Med. 2026 Jan 23; 56:e29.
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Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies. Nature. 2026 01; 649(8098):918-925.
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Study design and the sampling of deleterious rare variants in biobank-scale datasets. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jun 10; 122(23):e2425196122.
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Sex-specific genetics underlie increased chronic pain risk in women: genome-wide association studies from the UK Biobank. Br J Anaesth. 2025 Aug; 135(2):401-415.
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Genome-wide association study on chronic postsurgical pain in the UK Biobank. Br J Anaesth. 2025 Mar; 134(3):783-792.
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Validation of GenProb-T1D and its clinical utility for differentiating types of diabetes in a biobank from a US healthcare system. J Diabetes Investig. 2025 Jan; 16(1):10-15.
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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).