Criterios para la selección y clasificación de colecciones y muestras biológicas de enfermedades transmisibles que serán incluidas en el Biobanco INS.

Abstract

Collections of biological samples are a fundamental tool in biomedical research. These samples can be obtained for clinical purposes, or for research, or using historical samples, that is, those that are already stored. The data that can potentially be obtained from the samples have specific characteristics that make them different from health data in general. Thus, they can provide information on disease predispositions even in asymptomatic people and affect asymptomatic people, sometimes unexpectedly; they are constant throughout life and can even be obtained after death. It should be mentioned that any process of use of these samples, their obtaining, conservation and transfer, has implications for the rights of the subjects and raises questions that the legal system must respond to. Since the biological sample is a support for all the genetic information of the source subject, it is necessary to apply to its treatment the principles that correspond according to the right to the protection of personal data. Given the importance of the organization of information, in this work the mechanisms to classify and select the most efficient collections and biological samples of communicable diseases that will be included in the Biobank-INS were established.