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

Getting started

Unlike the CHARGE Consortium Public Website, this wiki requires a username and password to view most pages. To gain access, please fill-out the Request Account form; new user requests are reviewed by the Research Steering Committee approximately twice per month.

Once logged in, you can edit existing pages or Create a new page. Wikipedia has a nice tutorial on how to edit pages.

Consortium Documents (public)

• CHARGE Principles (print version:pdf) : Principles for collaboration in the consortium, approved Jan 2008 by founding cohorts.
• CHARGE Working Group Principles (print version:pdf) : Principles for collaboration in CHARGE working groups (approved Jan 2008), new participants in working groups or CHARGE projects are asked to review and agree to these principles before joining.
• Aggregate Results-Sharing Principles : Guidelines for sharing results of GWAS, for participation in working groups and collaborative meta-analyses. (approved May 2008)
• Results Sharing Format : file format guidelines for sharing of aggregate results for meta-analysis.

Committees & Working Groups

• Research Steering Committee: Membership and minutes
• CHARGE -S PAGE : The CHARGE Sequencing GWAS follow-up project
• Working Groups: Directory of active working groups
• Results Sharing: Listing of file-sharing sites for each Working Group and contributing study, and details about CHARGE results sharing formats
• Analysis Subcommittee: Resources and references for doing analyses, and minutes of analysis calls

Consortium Information

• CHARGE Consortium : Public consortium website
• Logos : versions of the CHARGE Tiger, with some explanations of its origins.
• Consortium Overview: Overview for each cohort's genotyping, imputation, analyses, and funding sources.
• CHARGE Newsletters: Archive of the newsletters sent to everyone with a wiki account
• Grant information: Updates on CHARGE grant submissions
• CHARGE Publications: (spreadsheet)(Updated 11/03/10 md) ;(PDF PubMed format)(11/02/10 md (70))

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.

Investigator Meetings

Presentations and organizational details of upcoming face-to-face meetings

• Los Angeles meeting: October 26-28 2011
• Iceland Meeting: Date to be determined (Spring 2012)

Past meetings (includes links to agendas and slides)

• Boston Meeting: February 9-11, 2011 hosted by Framingham
• Houston Meeting: April 28-30, 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

Founding 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)

Other Resources

• Consult the User's Guide or MediaWiki FAQ for information on using the wiki software.
• Please try to use text or online-viewable formats such as plain text or PDF whenever feasible. Ways of doing this include saving your document as HTML and then running it through html2wiki to get pasteable "wikitext" or using OpenOffice to export files into as MediaWiki format.
• Calendar: Editable calendar of ongoing calls (not currently updated)
• Time Zones: Useful information for setting up conference calls