dc.contributor.author | Overy, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Reynolds, LA | |
dc.contributor.author | Tansey, EM | |
dc.contributor.editor | OVERY, C | |
dc.contributor.editor | REYNOLDS, LA | |
dc.contributor.editor | TANSEY, EM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-19T15:15:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-19T15:15:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0902238787 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780902238787 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2827 | |
dc.description | Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 24 May 2011. Introduction by Professor David Gordon, World Federation for Medical Education.First published by Queen Mary, University of London, 2012.©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2012.All volumes are freely available online at www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/
wellcome_witnesses/ | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) arose from a proposal in the mid-1980s to design a cohort study in Europe which concentrated on the health of children. The UK-side of this was developed in the former county of Avon and the study has followed more than 14000 children, due between April 1991 and December 1992, from their mothers' pregnancies onwards. A vast amount of data has been collected on health, lifestyle, and environment as well as biological samples of urine, blood and DNA. This has been used to establish genetic and environmental determinants of development and health. With an introduction by Professor David Gordon, this volume addresses the origin and development of ALSPAC, the problems of funding such a major study, the variety of methodologies employed, and the ethical questions associated with the project. Contributors include several of the major scientists involved with ALSPAC including Professor Jean Golding, Scientific and Executive Director of the study until December 2005, as well as clinical scientists, epidemiologists, members of the ethics committee, field workers and study parents. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is
a registered charity, no. 210183. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | i - (148) | |
dc.format.medium | paper and open access | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Queen Mary, University of London | en_US |
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dc.subject | Professor Jean Golding | en_US |
dc.subject | birth cohort 1992-3 | en_US |
dc.subject | biological samples | en_US |
dc.subject | genetic information | en_US |
dc.subject | Children in Focus clinics | en_US |
dc.subject | ethical committee | en_US |
dc.subject | Bristol University | en_US |
dc.title | History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children , C 1980-2000 | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Wellcome Witnesses To Twentieth Century Medicine | |
pubs.declined | 2012-09-24T11:26:19.993+0100 | |
pubs.deleted | 2012-09-24T11:26:19.993+0100 | |
pubs.merge-to | 123456789/2724 | |
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pubs.merge-to | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/2724 | |
pubs.merge-to | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 | |
pubs.place-of-publication | LONDON | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | |
pubs.volume | 44 | |