FinnGen

The FinnGen Study

Description

FinnGen is a large-scale public–private initiative that integrates nationwide genomic data with comprehensive health-registry information from Finland. By leveraging the country’s semi-isolated population structure and historical bottlenecks, which enrich rare and high-impact alleles, it enables more efficient detection of variant–disease associations. The resource offers deeply phenotyped, population-level data that accelerates novel genetic insights and supports impactful scientific collaboration.

General Design

Type
Cohort study
Cohort type
Population cohort
Design
Longitudinal
Start/End data collection
2007 (ongoing)
Design paper
FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

Population

Countries
Finland

Available Data & Samples

Areas of information

  • Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
  • Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
  • Health outcomes
  • Clinical measurements
  • Clinical diagnoses
  • Hypertension diagnosis
  • Diabetes diagnosis
  • Medication and supplements
  • Non-pharmacological interventions
  • Death
  • Physical measures and assessments
  • Laboratory measures

Collection events

List of collection events defined for this resource
No results for current selection

Networks

Part of networks

Publications

Documentation