Table 1 East Asian centers and resources for human genomic research

China

• Chinese National Human Genome Center, Shanghai (‘South Center’)

• Pan-Asia Population SNP Database [20]

• Human Genetic Resources Platform (2003–2007) [21]

• Chinese National Human Genome Center, Beijing (‘North Center’)

• 1000 Genomes Project

• Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China (KSCDC; 2004–2008) [22]

• Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), Shenzhen

• National Clinical Specimen Biobank (2011–2015) [23]

Indonesia

• Biotechnology Research Centre of the Science Institute of Indonesia (LIPI)

(Individual institution-wide databases only)

• Eijkman Institute

• Institute of Tropical Disease

• Consortium on Vaccine Research (16 universities and research institutions)

Japan

• University of Tokyo

• Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive (JGA) [24]

• Biobank Japan (2003-) [25]

• Yokohama City University

• Japanese Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (JSNP)

• National Center Biobank Network (NCBN; 2012-) [26]

:

• RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM)

• Human Genome Variation Database (HGVD)

• Tohoku Medical Megabank (ToMMo; 2012-)

• Tohoku University

• National Registry of Diseases Office (NRDO)

• National Cancer Center

Singapore

• Genome Institute of Singapore

• Bioinformatics Institute

• Bioprocessing Technology Institute

• National University of Singapore

• Nanyang Technological University

• National Cancer Centre

• Defence Science Office

South Korea

• Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC)

• Korean Genomic Variant Database (KGVDB)

• Korea Biobank Project (KBP; 2008-; including Korea Biobank Network and National Biobank of Korea (NBK)) [27, 28]

Taiwan

• Genomics Research Center (GRC), Academia Sinica

• Taiwan Biobank (2005-) [29]

• National Health Research Institute (NHRI)