Biobanking in a Challenging African Environment: Unique Experience from the SIREN Project.

ABSTRACT: Africa was previously insufficiently represented in the emerging discipline of biobanking despite commendable early efforts. However, with the Human, Heredity, and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative, biorepository science has been bolstered, regional biobanks are springing up, and awareness about biobanks is growing on the continent. The Stroke Investigative Research and Educational Network (SIREN) project is a transnational, multicenter, hospital and community-based study involving over 3000 cases and 3000 controls recruited from 16 sites in Ghana and Nigeria. SIREN aims to explore and unravel the genetic and environmental factors that interact to produce the peculiar phenotypic and clinical characteristics of stroke as seen in people of African ancestry and facilitate the development

SUBMITTER: Akinyemi RO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5995267 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature