[A biological bank in an epidemiologic study in France: How? Example of the E3N-EPIC study].
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The organisation of a bank of biological material as part of an epidemiologic study raises a number of problems. The first part of the paper discusses, in the context of the French regulation, the legal obligations, the administrative problems, the locations selected for the biological sampling, the strategy for sending out invitations to the participants, and the logistic of biological samples transport and storage. The second part presents the solutions brought to these problems in the prospective E3N-EPIC cohort study.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Annales de biologie clinique
دوره 60 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002