Getting on track Another reason for establishing Taiwan Biobank is the need for long-term cohort tracking studies, which can address polygenic or multifactorial diseases (diseases involving more than one gene or environmental factor). The database and tracking studies are each a reason for, and a product of, the other.
台灣生物資料庫的建立，與非單一基因的多重疾病、多重危險因子之世代追蹤研究，是一體兩面，互為因果的。