The new databank is now the largest for Chinese people in the world,
according to Hong Junling, deputy head of CMDP management center of the
Chinese Red Cross (RCSC).
The databank includes information such as the names and gender of nearly
one million donors and information about to which ethnic groups the donors
come from, Hong said.
It also covers such medical information as blood types, gene types and
health status of the donors.
The CMDP, launched in 2001 by the Red Cross Society of China, aims to help
millions of Chinese with blood diseases.
But Hong said the blood sample databank could help genetic analysis for
major diseases other than blood diseases.
The blood sample databank has collected 970,000 samples and provided more
than 1,200 patients with haematogenous stem cells, including 50-odd cases
from abroad, according to Hong.
The number of samples is expected to reach one million by 2010.
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