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A Finnish research project that has read the genomes of over 500,000 people, almost one in ten Finns, and linked them to their national health records to find how genes cause disease. Its results are free for anyone to browse.
FinnGen describes itself as a large public-private research project in genomics and personalised medicine that has collected and analysed genome and health data from 500,000 Finnish biobank donors, using samples gathered by the nationwide network of Finnish biobanks and combining them with digital health-care data from national registries. The University of Helsinki is the organisation responsible; the consortium includes all Finnish public biobanks and their background organisations. The genome data produced are owned by the Finnish biobanks and remain available for research. Data freeze 13, the latest release on the site when read on 4 November 2026, comprises more than 500,000 individuals, more than 21.3 million variants and more than 2,750 health endpoints, browsable online with downloadable summary statistics. Cancers are among the endpoints that come from the national registries.
Shares BioBank Japan (BBJ), UK Biobank, Biobanking and tissue procurement.
Shares BioBank Japan (BBJ), UK Biobank.
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