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CHARGE Consortium Wiki (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology.)  

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Contents

• Consortium Overview: Overview for each cohort's genotyping, imputation, analyses, and funding sources.
• Working Groups: Directory of active working groups
• Research Steering Committee: Membership and minutes
• Analysis Subcommittee: Resources and references for doing analyses, and minutes of analysis calls
• Project Proposals: Summaries of manuscript proposals
• Results Sharing: Listing of file-sharing sites for each Working Group and contributing study, and details about CHARGE results sharing formats
• CHARGE Newsletters: Archive storage of the newsletters sent to everyone with a wiki account
  
• Wiki news: Wiki updates of interest
• Grant information: Updates on CHARGE grant submissions
• CHARGE Publications: as of 10/26/09

Consortium Documents (public)

CHARGE Principles (print version: pdf) approved Jan 2008

CHARGE Working Group Principles (print version: pdf) approved Jan 2008

Aggregate Results-Sharing Principles approved May 2008

Results Sharing Format format for sharing of aggregate results for meta-analysis.

Methods paper: Psaty BM, O'Donnell CJ, Gudnason V, Lunetta KL, Folsom AR, Rotter J.L., Uitterlinden AG, Harris TB, Witteman JCM, Boerwinkle E, on behalf of the CHARGE Consortium. Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium: Design of prospective meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies from five cohorts. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009;2:73-80.

Meetings

Calendar: Editable calendar of ongoing calls

Time Zones: Useful information for setting up conference calls

Face-to-Face Meetings

Presentations and organizational details of upcoming and past meetings;

• Houston Meeting: April 29-30, 2010, hosted by ARIC
• Washington DC Meeting Oct 29-30, 2009
• Rotterdam Meeting: held 16-17 April 2009
• Seattle Meeting: held 9-11 July 2008
• Framingham Meeting: held 22-24 January 2008

Participating Cohorts

• Age, Gene, Environment Susceptibility (AGES)
• Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)
• Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)
• Framingham Heart Study (FHS)
• Rotterdam Study (ERGO or RS)

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