HELIX

The Human Early-Life Exposome...

Description

Six prospective birth cohort studies are contributing to HELIX as the only realistic and feasible way to obtain the comprehensive, longitudinal, human data needed to build this early-life exposome. These cohorts have already collected large amounts o...

General Design

Type
Cohort study
Cohort type
Birth cohort
Data collection type
Prospective
Design
Longitudinal
Start/End data collection
2014 until 2016

Population

Countries
Spain, France, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Number of participants
32000
Number of participants with samples
1300

Organisations

Lead organisations
  • Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGLOBAL)
    Spain

Contributors

Networks

Part of networks...

Funding & Acknowledgements

Funding
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/308333