The Academia Sinica's Taiwan genetic database project plans to collect genes from some 500,000 people and to conduct follow up studies over 20 to 30 years to investigate the relationship between genes and the environment.
中研院一項名為「台灣基因資料庫」的計畫，預計要蒐集五十萬人的基因，做長達二、三十年的追蹤觀察，藉以研究基因和環境之間的關係。