The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) 2024-2029
Year of award: 2024
Grantholders
Prof Abigail Fraser
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Prof Deborah Lawlor
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Prof Nicholas Timpson
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Project summary
ALSPAC is a pregnancy cohort that recruited women living in the former County of Avon in the South West of England with an expecteddelivery date between April 1991 and December 1992 (>14500 viable pregnancies). The study has followed the lives of participants andprovided data, biosamples and infrastructure to improve understanding of factors contributing to health and disease. Over threedecades, 28 age specific face-to-face clinics, >140 questionnaires and amultitude of data linkages and bespoke studies have generated a vastcollection of data and biosamples available to bona fide researchers. ALSPAC provides unrivalled opportunities to study sociodemographic,lifestyle, patho-physiological, genomic and molecular factors thati nfluence health and is active. The study has an engaged participantbase and continues to record life course health and wellbeing eventsand factors pertinent to the original children (“Generation 1”), their new off spring (“G2”) and their parents (“G0”).