RESEARCH ARTICLE Constitutional multicenter

here, because they provide the biological and clinical information required for research to identify useful biomarkers [1]. treatment of illness and the promotion of health throughout the society. The China Kadoorie biobank (CKB) is set up to investigate the main genetic and environmental causes of common chronic diseases in the Chinese population [4,5]. In the CKB, 512,891 adults aged 30–79 years were recruited, of which 41% were men, 56 % were from rural areas, and mean age * Correspondence: bfree@kiom.re.krindividual differences for personalized medicine. Withand validating their research. In this study, we developed a biobank called the Korea Constitutional Multicenter Bank (KCMB) based on Sasang Constitutional Medicine (SCM). The aim of the KCMB was a foundation to providing the scientific basis of SCM. Methods: The KCMB has been constructed since 2006 in 24 Korean medical clinics with collection of questionnaire data, physical measurements and biological information comprised the results from blood test and DNA analyses