Basic characteristics
The FinnGen study contains genotype and phenotype data of more than 500 000 Finns.
The cohort is composed of samples from Finnish biobanks (see Recruitment).
About 217 000 samples (43%) are from men, and 281 000 (57%) from women. The median age of the participants when donating the biobank sample was 53 years.
The cohort includes ~315 000 patients from health care and specialist health care, ~58 000 healthy blood donors, ~2000 hematological cancer patients, and ~180 000 participants from national studies. Some of these are population based studies, others disease based ones.