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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

Classifications

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
Lifestyle and health behaviours
Health status and functional limitations
Diseases
Symptoms and signs
Medication and supplements
Non-pharmacological interventions
Health and community care utilization
Reproduction
Birth, infancy and childhood
End of life
Physical measures
Cognition, personality and other psychological measures
Laboratory measures
Social environment
Physical environment
Administrative information

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics

Age/birthdate
Sex/gender
Twin
Marital/partner status
Education
Birth place
Citizenship and immigrant status
Ethnicity, race and religion
Language
Residence
Family and household structure
Labour force and retirement
Income, possessions, and benefits
Other socio-demographic and economic characteristics

Lifestyle and health behaviours

Tobacco
Alcohol
Illicit drugs
Nutrition
Physical activity
Transportation
Sleep

Health status and functional limitations

Perception of health
Functional activities
Use of assistive devices

Diseases

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
Neoplasms (C00-D48)
Blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99)
Nervous system (G00-G99)
Eye and adnexa (H00-H59)
Ear and mastoid process (H60-H95)
Circulatory system (I00-I99)
Respiratory system (J00-J99)
Digestive system (K00-K93)
Skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99)
Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
Genitourinary system (N00-N99)
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98)
Diseases without precise specification or related to multiple categories

Symptoms and signs

Circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
Urinary system (R30-R39)

Medication and supplements

Medication and supplements
Other and unspecified pharmacological interventions

Non-pharmacological interventions

Surgical interventions
Radiological interventions
Biosample analyses
Other information on non-pharmacological interventions

Health and community care utilization

Visits to health professionals

Reproduction

Menstruation, menopause and andropause
Contraception and family planning
Pregnancy, labour, delivery, and postpartum characteristics
Gravidity, pregnancy outcomes, parity (female) and fertility (male)
Breastfeeding
Reproductive and sexual problems related to conception

Birth, infancy and childhood

Other infant/child related information

End of life

Vital status
Cause of death

Physical measures

Physical characteristics
Anthropometry
Circulation and respiration
Muscles, skeleton and mobility
Skin and subcutaneous tissue
Other physical measures

Cognition, personality and other psychological measures

Psychological distress and emotions
Other psychological measures

Laboratory measures

Hematology
Biochemistry

Social environment

Social support
Life events and plans

Physical environment

Radiation exposure
Chemical exposure

Administrative information

Identifiers
Date and time
Questionnaire / Interview related information
Physical and cognitive measures and biosample related information
Data and sample collection center characteristics
Other administrative information