TwinHealth - Zwillingsgesundheit über die gesamte Lebensspanne

ID: 

29

DZPG Site: 

Tübingen
General Information
Status

Ongoing (II): Recruitment and data collection ongoing

Description

The TwinHealth consortium of the Medical Faculty Tübingen (MFT) started in 2016 to establish research-open and sustainable twin research at the location Tübingen. Twin research is particularly suitable for clarifying which parts of disease and health behavior are more genetically determined and which are more influenced by environmental and lifestyle influences. The cohort contains currently around 500 twin pairs.

Paper

doi: 10.1007/s00103-021-03400-2

Website

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00103-021-03400-2

Contact
PI

Prof. Dr. Andreas Stengel

Further PIs

Andreas Nieß Olaf Rieß Johanna Löchner Oliver Kagan Cornelia Wiechers

Survey Results
Is it an interventional or non-interventional study?
  • Non-interventional
Specification of study type
  • Twin study
Is it a mono- or multicentric study?

Monocentric

Is it a single or multi country study?

Single

Which country?

Germany

Who are participants?
  • General population
  • Patients with specific diseases
Which diseases? (ICD-11 classification)
  • Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders (06)
  • Other
Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders (ICD-11 classification)
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety or fear-related disorders
  • Disorders specifically associated with stress
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Feeding or eating disorders
  • Disorders of bodily distress or bodily experience
  • Disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviours
  • Personality disorders and related traits
Which other diseases? (ICD-11 classification)
  • Neoplasms (02)
  • Diseases of the nervous system (08)
  • Diseases of the digestive system (13)
  • Diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue (15)
Recruitment setting
  • General population
  • Hospital
  • Outpatient
Target sample size

2000

Obtained sample size

1000

Start of recruitment

2016

Minimum age of participants

0

Maximum age of participants

99

Data sources for the study
  • Biological samples
  • Medical records
  • Interview
  • Questionnaire
Is it planned to share the data?

Undecided, it is not yet known if data will be made available

Are further follow-ups planned?

Yes

Is there consent to re-contact participants?

Yes

Is the implementation of further study components possible?

Yes

Biobank Module
Which material did you collect?
  • Blood
  • Other
Which other material did you collect?

Stool samples

What type of blood collection tubes did you use?
  • EDTA
  • PAXgene/Tempus
Which type of data did you collect from EDTA?
  • Genetic
Which data did you collect from PAXgene/Tempus?
  • Gene expression
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