people by January 2018 in a pilot phase with an aim to sign up one million participants by 2022. As of February 2021 the program has enrolled 369,000 participants with 235,000 Electronic Health Records and 280,000 biosamples. The Lifelines cohort study was started in 2006 and collects data and samples on 167,000 children, adults and elderly from the Northern part of the Netherlands. The aim of Lifelines is to constitute a biobank that provides high-quality data and samples by following all participants over a period of at least 30 years. The collected data offer excellent opportunities for studies worldwide unraveling the etiology of multifactorial diseases focusing on multifactor risk factors. This will help to move forward to more personalised health care and prevention and to answer the question why some people grow old in good health while others contract diseases. The Finngen project was launched in 2018 with the aim of collecting biological samples from 500,000 participants in Finland over six years with the aim of improving health through genetic research. East London Genes & Health is a genomic research study of 100,000 people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin carried out by Queen Mary University of London. See also All of Us (initiative) Framingham Heart Study Baseline Study References External links Biobank organizations Charities based in Greater Manchester Genetics databases Genetics in the United Kingdom Organisations based in Stockport Science and technology in Greater Manchester Wellcome Trust 2007 establishments in the United Kingdom Medical and health organisations based in England