Executive Director Masayuki Yamamoto and Professor Hozumi Motohashi were selected as  Highly Cited Researchers 2021 by Clarivate Analytics in Cross-Field category. Executive Director Yamamoto was selected for the fourth consecutive year, and Professor Motohashi was selected for the first time.

Researchers examined spouses in Japan and the Netherlands, drawing on data from the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project, and the Lifelines study in the Netherlands. Many of the correlations were between couples with low genetic similarity and high lifestyle similarity, and the article was published on the Journal Atherosclerosis.

Toshiba Corporation, Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), Tohoku University Hospital, and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have developed a distributed storage technology that combines quantum cryptography communication and secret sharing technologies, successfully demonstrating the world’s first experimental large-scale genome analysis data backup to multiple sites.

The article about the design and pilot study for return of genomic results in Tohoku Medical Megabank (TMM) Project cohort study was published on the Journal of Human Genetics.

Allele frequency data of the Japanese whole genome reference panel 8.3KJPN, constructed by Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, has been registered and available in The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP).

New article about design and development of a novel version of the SNP Array for the Japanese population, Japonica Array NEO was published on the Journal of Biochemistry.

The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization who completed and released the first Japanese reference genome (JG1). The study was published in the journal Nature Communications on January 11, 2021.

New article about study profile of The Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-Based Cohort Study was published on the Journal of Epidemiology.

New article about design and progress of oral health examinations in Tohoku Medical Megabank Project was published in the Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine.

The article about the public relations and communication strategies of Tohoku Medical Megabank Project was published

The article about the design of Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study was published.

New article about establishment and sample management of TMM biobank was published on the journal “The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine”.

ToMMo Introduction Movie is available now!

You are able to know more about ToMMo, such as project overview, design, or facilities. Please visit the page “ToMMo’s Library”.

We published an article describing progress and perspectives of genomic research in Tohoku Medical Megabank Project.

The article about omics research project was published.

Article about design and mission of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project was published.

Health surveillance of the brain and psychological state program with MRI