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Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 17 Feb 2025 | Updated: 375 days ago

GS: SFHS (Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study)

Dataset

Summary

DOI Name:
10.48532/026000

Documentation

Description:
The aim of GS: SFHS is to establish a large, family-based intensively-phenotyped cohort recruited from the general population across Scotland, as a resource for studying the genetics of health areas of current and projected public health importance. It aims to identify genetic variants accounting for variation in levels of quantitative traits underlying the major common complex diseases (such as cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, mental illness) in Scotland. DNA and non-identifiable information from this cohort will be made available to researchers in Scotland and international collaborators. Baseline data was collected at a single clinic visit. Longitudinal data is available by linkage to NHS medical records. Some participants are being invited to new clinic visits in 2015-17. This profile also includes scanning information from the Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study to which approximately 3,000 GS participants have been invited for scanning.

Coverage

Spatial:
United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
Typical Age Range:
18-100
Follow Up:
Continuous

Provenance

Origin

Purposes:
Study

Temporal

Accrual Periodicity:
Continuous
Start Date:
23 January 2006
Time Lag:
Not applicable

Accessibility

Access

Access Service:
The Data Portal runs its analysis environment through a virtual desktop infrastructure accessible via VMWare software. By analysing the data in the virtual desktop environment you are working on DPUK"s servers – meaning there is no physical transfer of data to researchers. The processing capacity enables you to work with large numbers of records and integrate these with the other data modalities that exist in the DPUK cohorts. This solution also offers researchers the freedom to conduct their analyses anywhere with an internet connection.
Data Controller:
Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow and NHS Scotland
Data Processor:
Dementias Platform UK

Format and Standards

Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
OTHER
Conforms To:
OTHER
Languages:
en
Formats:
CSV