Interview about the UK Biobank with Dr. Christopher Whelan Proteomics in Proximity

Welcome to Olink Proteomics in Proximity Podcast!   
Below are some useful resources from this episode:   
Highlighted article from the UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project (UKB-PPP): Styrkarsdottir U, Lund SH, Thorleifsson G, Saevarsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K. Cartilage Acidic Protein 1 in Plasma Associates With Prevalent Osteoarthritis and Predicts Future Risk as Well as Progression to Joint Replacements: Results From the UK Biobank Resource. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Apr;75(4):544-552. doi: 10.1002/art.42376. Epub 2022 Dec 28. PMID: 36239377. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36239377/ 
 
Highlighted platform that was used to measure proteins in this study with a next-generation sequencing (NGS) readout (Olink® Explore 3072): https://olink.com/products-services/explore/  
UKB-PPP consortium, one of the world’s largest scientific studies of blood protein biomarkers conducted to date: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/learn-more-about-uk-biobank/news/uk-biobank-launches-one-of-the-largest-scientific-studies 
 
ENIGMA consortium, an international effort to understand brain structure and function based on imaging and genetic data: https://enigma.ini.usc.edu/about-2/ 
 
SCALLOP consortium, a collaborative framework for discovery and follow-up of genetic associations with proteins on the Olink Proteomics platform: https://olink.com/our-community/scallop/ 
 
ClinVar, a public archive of supporting evidence of human variations and phenotypes from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/intro/ 
 
GWAS (genome-wide association studies): https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Genome-Wide-Association-Studies
 
Learn more about some of the scientists mentioned in the podcast who are performing cutting-edge research:
Dr. Kári Stefánsson, Founder and CEO of deCODE genetics: https://www.decode.com/management/ 
Dr. Claudia Langenberg, Director of Queen Mary’s Precision Health University Research Institute (PHURI): https://www.bihealth.org/en/research/research-group/computational-medicine 
Dr. Jochen Schwenk, Professor of Translational Proteomics at SciLife Lab: https://www.scilifelab.se/researchers/jochen-schwenk/  
Dr. Karsten Suhre, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar: https://physiology.med.cornell.edu/people/karsten-suhre-ph-d/ 
Dr. Paul Thompson: Director at ENIGMA Center for Worldwide Medicine, Imaging, & Genomics; Professor in the Keck School of Medicine at USC: https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/paul-m-thompson/ 
 
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