Cohort Profile: East London Genes & Health (ELGH), a community-based population genomics and health study in British Bangladeshi and British Pakistani people

Cohort profile in a nutshell: - East London Genes & Health (ELGH) is a large scale, community genomics and health study (to date >30,000 volunteers; target 100,000 volunteers). - ELGH was set up in 2015 to gain deeper understanding of health and disease, and underlying genetic influences, in people of British-Bangladeshi and -Pakistani heritage living in east London. - ELGH prioritises studies in areas important to, and identified by, the community it represents. Current priorities include cardiometabolic diseases and mental illness, these being of notably high prevalence and severity. However studies in any scientific area are possible, subject to community advisory group and ethical approval. - ELGH combines health data science (using linked UK National Health Service (NHS) electronic health…