Biological Specimen Banks
"Biological Specimen Banks" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Facilities that collect, store, and distribute tissues, e.g., cell lines, microorganisms, blood, sperm, milk, breast tissue, for use by others. Other uses may include transplantation and comparison of diseased tissues in the identification of cancer.
| Descriptor ID |
D018070
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.065
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| Concept/Terms |
Biological Specimen Banks- Biological Specimen Banks
- Specimen Banks, Biological
- Bank, Biological Substance
- Banks, Biological Substance
- Biological Specimen Bank
- Substance Bank, Biological
- Substance Banks, Biological
- Biological Substance Banks
- Bank, Biological Specimen
- Banks, Biological Specimen
- Specimen Bank, Biological
- Biological Substance Bank
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biological Specimen Banks" by people in Profiles.
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Childhood cancer predisposition study: a prospective registry and biorepository protocol. BMJ Open. 2026 08 05; 16(8):e120576.
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Accelerometry-measured prolonged and interrupted sedentary behavior and cancer incidence and mortality: A cohort study of 91,292 UK Biobank participants. PLoS Med. 2026 Jul; 23(7):e1004767.
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Ultra-rare functional variants reveal early-onset breast cancer risk genes and pathways in the UK Biobank and All of Us Research Program. Am J Hum Genet. 2026 May 07; 113(5):1049-1066.
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Circulating Ketone Bodies and Incident Cardiovascular Outcomes and Mortality: Insights From the UK Biobank. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Mar 03; 15(5):e042582.
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Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes. Nature. 2026 04; 652(8110):675-685.
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An Annotated Biobank of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patient-Derived Xenografts Features Treatment-Na?ve and Longitudinal Samples during Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy. Cancer Res. 2025 11 03; 85(21):4062-4080.
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Meta-evolutionary exome analysis identifies novel type 2 diabetes mellitus genes in the UK Biobank and all of us. PLoS Genet. 2025 Sep; 21(9):e1011889.
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Pan-UK Biobank genome-wide association analyses enhance discovery and resolution of ancestry-enriched effects. Nat Genet. 2025 Oct; 57(10):2408-2417.
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Comparative analysis of the Mexico City Prospective Study and the UK Biobank identifies ancestry-specific effects on clonal hematopoiesis. Nat Genet. 2025 Mar; 57(3):572-582.
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Health equity innovation in precision medicine: data stewardship and agency to expand representation in clinicogenomics. Health Res Policy Syst. 2024 Dec 19; 22(1):170.