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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Apr;26(Suppl 2):S25–S34. doi: 10.1002/oby.22156

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Review of selection criteria for different tissues that could be biobanked. Whole blood is clearly the best fit for these criteria, though other tissues should not be eliminated if available depending upon their relevance to specific study. *Collection costs include creation of sample aliquots; measured markers include metabolites (M), nucleotides (N), and proteins (P).