Data Resource Profile: The ALSPAC birth cohort as a platform to study the relationship of environment and health and social factors.

The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust (102215/2/13/2) and the University of Bristol currently provide core support for ALSPAC (Prinicpal Investigator: N.T.). A comprehensive list of ALSPAC funding is available on our website [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/external/documents/grant-acknowledgements.pdf]. This work was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (R8/H12/83/NE/P01830/1) as part of the ‘Enhancing Environmental data Resources In Cohort studies: ALSPAC exemplar’ (ERICA) award (Principal Investigator: A.B.). The Wellcome Trust (WT086118) supported the wider development of the ALSPAC geospatial resource through the ‘Project to Enhance ALSPAC through Record Linkage’ (PEARL) award (Principal Investigator: J.M.). ALSPAC G2 data collection and analyses are supported by core funds (see above) and also the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013)/ERC Grant Agreement (Grant number 669545) and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01 DK10324). D.L. and N.T. work in or are affiliated to a Unit that receives support from the UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00011/6) and University of Bristol. N.T. is a Wellcome Trust Investigator (202802/Z/16/Z), is supported by the University of Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC-1215–20011), and works within the CRUK Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme (C18281/A19169). C.T. is supported by a Wellcome Career Re-entry Fellowship (104077/Z/14/Z). J.V.H's NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (NE/M007073/1) (Principal Investigator: J.V.H.) supported exploration of impact routes for environmental data. This publication is the work of the authors, who will serve as guarantors for the contents of this paper.