Modern biobanks enable molecular-based research to understand highly sophisticated diseases by providing a various type of research materials that collected from the community at different period of live.

Since the inheritance disease in Saudi population is high compared with other ethnic groups the establishment of biobanking services is essential. This raise in genetics diseases is believed to be a result of high rate of consanguineous marriages among the population that estimate to be between 56-64% (Al Rajeh et al. 1995; Al Jumah et al. 2003). Moreover, first-degree marriages are estimated to reach up to 35% in all of consanguineous marriages.

The other feature that makes bio-banking in Saudi Arabia is essential in improving health services is that the family size is large compare to western countries. The average of family size is ranging between 8-10 members in the same family that also contributed dramatically in raising of affected individuals in the country. The other advantage in establishment biobanking is large extension of the family’s ancestor’s pedigree and availability to banking biological materials from them.

In conclusion, NGHA Biobank is planned to be community biobanking services for Saudi nation, with storage capacity up-to 200,000 individuals to examine lifestyle, environment and genes interactions in a range of common late onset diseases.