Generation Scotland

{| class="infobox" cellspacing="6" style="width: 38em; text-align: left; font-size: 75%; line-height: 2em;" |+ style="font-size: larger;" | Generation Scotland |- | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! Founded | 1999 |- ! Executive Committee |Prof. Blair H. Smith (University of Dundee)
Prof. Alison Murray (University of Aberdeen)
Prof. David Porteous (University of Edinburgh)
Prof. Sandosh Padmanabhan (University of Glasgow) |- ! Founding members |Prof. David John Porteous (University of Edinburgh)
Dame Anna Dominiczak (University of Glasgow)
Prof. Andrew Morris (University of Edinburgh)
Prof. Blair H. Smith (University of Aberdeen now University of Dundee) |- ! Collaborates with |MRC Human Genetics Unit
NHS Scotland
[http://www.isdscotland.org/ NHS ISD Scotland] |- !General Enquiries |Generation Scotland
Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine
University of Edinburgh
Western General Hospital
Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK |- !The Web |[http://www.generationscotland.org/ Generation Scotland official website]
Twitter: @genscot
Facebook: Generation Scotland |- |}

Generation Scotland is a biobank, a resource of biological samples and information on health and lifestyle from thousands of volunteer donors in Scotland.

The aim of Generation Scotland is to create an ethically sound, family- and population-based infrastructure to identify the genetic basis of common complex diseases. The Generation Scotland concept has been evolving for several years (see timeline), and now involves three complementary projects, the Scottish Family Health Study GS:SFHS, Genetic Health in the 21st Century GS:21CGH, and the Donor DNA Databank GS:3D. Together these projects have recruited a cohort of over 30,000 people.

Generation Scotland is establishing multi-disciplinary skills networks in genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics and health informatics. Social scientists have been involved from the start, conducting a public consultation process and addressing ethical, legal and social issues. The output from these projects will be of value to the biomedical, sociomedicolegal, healthcare and bioindustry sectors.

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