The Estonian Biobank has established a population-based biobank of Estonia with a current cohort size of more than 200,000 individuals (genotyped with genome-wide arrays), reflecting the age, sex and geographical distribution of the adult Estonian population. Because about 20% of Estonia’s adult population has joined the programme, it is a database that is important for the development of medical science both domestically and internationally.
Today, the genetic material of all Estonian Biobank participants has been genotyped using Illumina GSA microchip, which contains more than 700,000 SNP markers and includes specific variants of the Estonian population that allow an analysis of gene variants in the genome.
