DNA bank of neurodegenerative disease cases

Name of bioresource/bank
DNA bank of neurodegenerative disease cases
Name of Principal Investigator

Title	Prof.
First name	Maria
Last name	Barcikowska

Address of institution where award is held

Institution	Medical Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences
Street Address	5 Pawinski str.
City	Warsaw
Postcode	02-106

Country

Poland

Website
www.cmdik.pan.pl
Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
[email protected]
Funding source
Governmental grants
Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

Parkinson’s disease

Neurodegenerative disease in general

Q2a What DNA collection does your resources hold?

1001-5000 donors

Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?

None

Q2c What tissue (including post-mortem tissue) does your resource hold?

1-100 donors

Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from

Living donors:blood

Living donors: DNA

Post-mortem donors: brain

Post-mortem donors: spinal cord

Q4 Are tissues/samples/DNA from

Healthy individuals/control donors

Patients

Q5 Can samples be linked to clinical (phenotypic) information and if so, is this information:

Not linked to clinical information

Routinely collected as medical records

Q6 In what form are samples supplied?

Primary samples: Supplied fresh

Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)

Secondary samples:(derivatives of primary samples)

Secondary samples: plasma

Secondary samples: DNA

Secondary samples: protein extracts

Q7 Are biomarkers/analytes/biological characteristics already measured and the information available for your samples?

In a few samples

Q8 What is the status of your tissue/sample/DNA collection?

Collection ongoing

Q9 What are the rules and procedures for access?

Apply to PI or co-ordinator at resource

Resource has own ethics approval so usually no need for separate external ethics approval

DNA bank of neurodegenerative disease cases

Biobanks

2011