Name:	GS SFHS
Title:	Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study
Researchers:	Professor Andrew Morris
Funding Body:	CSO
Funding Awarded:	£4,400,000
Start Date:	01/01/2006
End Date:	31/03/2011

 

Generation Scotland

Generation Scotland is a partnership between the Scottish University Medical Schools, Biomedical Research Institutes, the NHS in Scotland and the people of Scotland. Generation Scotland aims to create more effective treatments based on gene knowledge.

The Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS)

GS:SFHS is a large-scale, long-term collaborative project, which aims to find out more about the serious illnesses that affect many people, such as heart disease, stroke, mental health, through genetics research.

Results

Over 14,000 participants recruited, intensively phenotyped (by March 2010), DNA, serum, urine and cryopreserved blood banked, over 40 requests to access the resource.

Peer reviewed publications

• Repapi, E., I. Sayers, et al. "Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function." Nat Genet 42(1): 36-44
• Macleod, A. K., D. C. Liewald, et al. "Some principles and practices of genetic biobanking studies." Eur Respir J 33(2): 419-25
• Haddow G. (2009). "We only did it because he asked us": Family accounts of recruitment to a large-scale population genetic database Social Science & Medicine, 69 (7), 1010-1017
• Smith, B. H., H. Campbell, et al. (2006). "Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability." BMC Med Genet 7: 74 Biomedcentral.