Biobank & access to data
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Biobank & access to data
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TRANSBIG collects whole blood, fresh frozen tumour tissue, tumour paraffin blocks and serum from MINDACT patients. These samples are stored in an independent biological materials bank (“biobank”) under the governance of the TRANSBIG Steering Committee and are, together with the associated microarray raw data, available for future research. Research proposals requiring access to these samples and/or data can be submitted to TRANSBIG at transbig@bordet.be by completing the submission form.
During the fifth year of project, covering the period March 2008 - February 2009, three research proposals were submitted to the Consortium for evaluation.
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TRANSBIG is countinuously seeking to build complementary partnerships with other (breast) cancer related organisations. Recently, TRANSBIG took part in the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS) project. This Consortium, supported by the European Commission Framework Programme (FP) VII, will perform germline single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) profiling on the MINDACT patient blood samples. Assessed SNP profiles of the MINDACT patients will be evaluated for breast cancer susceptibility, and then correlated with the corresponding clinical and microarray data (70-gene signature profile).