| Name of Biobank |
National Children’s Study |
| Year Initiated |
Planning- 2000 Implementation-2009 |
| Primary objective (one sentence) |
Improve the health of children |
| Key components (please briefly address the following): |
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| Time frame |
About 25 years |
| Sample size (current and anticipated) and characteristics (age, gender) |
Current-Vanguard Study- about 2000
Anticipated – Main Study- 100 000 |
| Recruitment area, method of recruitment/follow-up, sample representativeness |
Nationally representative sample of the United States |
| Types of data/specimens collected (questionnaire, physical exam) |
Questionnaires on health, behavior, diet, exposures, biospecimens, environmental samples |
| Data collection, storage, processing systems |
Household and clinic visits, electronic data systems capture, biospecimen repository, environmental sample repository |
| Method of consent, reporting of results |
Staged consent process with mothers, permission for children, assent and eventually consent of children, reporting through public data resources and formal publications |
| Health outcomes of interest |
Interactions between environment, growth, development, genetics and health |
| Funding Sources |
U.S. Congressional appropriation administered through NIH Director’s Office |
