Osong Public Health Res Perspect.  2012 Sep;3(3):185-189. 10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.007.

National Biobank of Korea: Quality control Programs of Collected-human Biospecimens

• Lee JE
• Kim JH
• Hong EJ
• Yoo HS
• Nam HY
• Park O

• KMID: 2518042
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.007

Abstract

Personalized medicine is emerging as a main paradigm for risk prediction, pre-diagnosis, and effective prevention and treatment of disease. A large number of human biospecimens and their clinical data are essential resources for the success of personalized medicine as well as other biomedical research. The National Biobank of Korea (NBK) has collected well-annotated and high quality human biospecimens, and distributes them to the Korean biomedical scientists, through the Korea Biobank Project (KBP). The ultimate goal of NBK activities is to promote biomedical research and public health. As of December- 2011, the NBK has collected various human biospecimens from 525,416 participants including 325,952 Korean populations and 199,464 patients. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the KBP and quality control programs for collection of human biospecimens with high quality of NBK.

Keyword

National Biobank of Korea; biobank; Korea Biobank Project; quality control; human biospecimens