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CARTaGENE

CARTaGENE

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Start Year
2007
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Investigators Contacts
  • Prof. Philip Awadalla
    CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre
  • Guy Rouleau
    Université de Montréal
  • Prof. Philip Awadalla
    CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre

Design

Study design
Cohort

Marker Paper

Awadalla P, Boileau C, Payette Y, Idaghdour Y, Goulet JP, Knoppers B, Hamet P, Laberge C, on behalf of the CP, Cohort profile of the CARTaGENE study: Quebec's population-based biobank for public health and personalized genomics. Int J Epidemiol, 2012.

PUBMED 23071140

Recruitment

Sources of Recruitment
  • Individuals

Number of participants

Number of participants
40,000
Number of participants with biosamples
40,000

Access

Availability of data and biosamples

Data
Biosamples
Other

Timeline

CaG population

Selection Criteria
Minimum age
40
Maximum age
69
Newborns
Twins
Countries
  • Canada
Territory

Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke and Saguenay for the first wave. Trois-Rivières and Gatineau added in the second wave.

Recruitment

Sources of recruitment
  • General population
General Population
  • Volunteer enrolment

Number of participants

Number of participants
Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Events
# Name Description Start End
0 CaG - Baseline Recruitment 2007-01 2010-10
0 CaG - Recontact Phase 2011-09 2012-08
0 CaG - Second Wave 2012-12 2014-12