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Hendersonetal.GenomeMedicine2013,5:3 /content/5/1/3 RESEARCH OpenAccess CharacterizingbiobankorganizationsintheU.S.: resultsfromanationalsurvey GailEHenderson1*,RJeanCadigan1,TeresaPEdwards2,IanConlon3,AndersGNelson1,JamesPEvans4, ArleneMDavis1,CatherineZimmer2,3 andBryanJWeiner5 Abstract Background:Effectivetranslationalbiomedicalresearchhingesontheoperationof‘biobanks,’repositoriesthat assemble,store,andmanagecollectionsofhumanspecimensandrelateddata.Someareestablishedintentionallyto addressparticularresearchneeds;many,however,havearisenopportunistically,inavarietyofsettingsandwitha vari