Taiwan

Recruitment Numbers: 4,500 Total(3,000 Cases, 1,500 Controls)

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) will be the coordinating center for the recruitment in Taiwan. The recruitment will take place in regional and central hospitals in the northern, central, southern and eastern of Taiwan.

Taiwan recruitment is overseen by Dr. Po-Hsiu Kuo, Professor and deputy director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University. Dr. Kuo’s main research focus includes genetic mapping and genomic studies for complex traits, psychiatric epidemiology, and bioinformatics studies, which fully supports this proposal. She has led many clinical studies for mood disorders in Taiwan, which successfully recruited more than 5000 individuals. In our project, Dr. Kuo and her team will coordinate the recruitment and training at all sites in Taiwan, which takes place in regional and central hospitals in the northern, central, southern and eastern of Taiwan. She will be the key leader communicating with the other two investigators about study updates.