The Korea Cohort Consortium: The Future of Pooling Cohort Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We introduced the cohort studies included in the Korea Cohort Consortium (KCC), focusing on large-scale cohort studies established in Korea with a prolonged follow-up period. Moreover, we also provided projections of the follow-up and estimates of the sample size that would be necessary for big-data analyses based on pooling established cohort studies, including population-based genomic studies.

Methods

We mainly focused on the characteristics of individual cohort studies from the KCC. We developed "PROFAN", a Shiny application for projecting the follow-up period to achieve a certain number of cases when pooling established cohort studies. As examples, we projected the follow-up periods for 5000 cases of gastric cancer, 2500 cases of prostate and breast cancer, an

SUBMITTER: Lee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561144 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature