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== Investigator Meetings  ==
== Investigator Meetings  ==
 
*Iceland Meeting: May 2012
==== Los Angeles/Redondo Beach, CA meeting: October 26-28 2011 ====
 
The 2011 Fall CHARGE Investigator Meeting, hosted by the University of Washington and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will be held at the [https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=3580400 Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina Hotel]:  300 N. Harbor Drive | Redondo Beach, CA 90277 on October 26-28, 2011.
 
Hotel reservations at'''1-888-233-9527 '''or online [https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=3580400 at the CHARGE Registration page] . A block of rooms has been reserved for the 2011 Fall CHARGE Investigator Meeting at the rate of $149.00 (+tax) per night.
 
[http://depts.washington.edu/chargeco/wiki/cgi_img_auth.php/8/85/Abstract_Submission_guidelines_LA_f_.pdf Abstract/Poster Guidelines Deadline extended to October 14]
 
<br>[http://depts.washington.edu/chargeco/wiki/cgi_img_auth.php/9/9c/CHARGE_LA_Agenda_10-7-11.pdf '''Draft CHARGE LA Investigator meeting&nbsp;Agenda as of 10/7/11''']<br>
 
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<u>Wednesday October 26, 2011</u>
 
[http://depts.washington.edu/chargeco/wiki/cgi_img_auth.php/a/a5/Image_Adiposity_WG_meeting_10-26_Agenda.pdf Adiposity WG Agenda]
 
The Adiposity WG will hold a one-day meeting on Wednesday Oct 26 from 9:00 – 5:00 pm PT in conjunction with the CHARGE LA| Redondo Beach Investigator meeting. The Adiposity meeting is opened to all CHARGE investigators and meeting participants, and will be held at the same venue as the main meeting, the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina Hotel. Please note registration is requested as lunch and refreshments will be served (register via the main CHARGE meeting registration web page– currently under construction). An agenda will be available prior to the meeting and will include project updates, methodology talks on pleiotropy, and planning for future projects. Drop-ins for any part of the program are welcome. If you have any questions, kindly contact [mailto:ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu Ingrid Borecki]&nbsp;[mailto:ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu]&nbsp;&nbsp;directly for details<u></u><u><br></u>
 
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Please contact Ann Walsh if you have any questions or suggestions.
 
Thank you, [mailto:walshac@nhlbi.nih.gov Ann Walsh]&nbsp; ([mailto:walshac@nhlbi.nih.gov walshac@nhlbi.nih.gov]) on behalf of the CHARGE Steering Committee <br>508-663-4046<br>
 
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<br><br>Iceland Meeting: Date to be determined (May 2012)


=== Past meetings (includes links to agendas and slides)  ===
=== Past meetings (includes links to agendas and slides)  ===
*[[LosAngeles_Meeting_2011|Los Angeles Meeting]] : October 26-28, 2011.


*[[Boston Meeting 2011|'''Boston Meeting''']]''':''' February 9-11, 2011 hosted by Framingham
*[[Boston Meeting 2011|'''Boston Meeting''']]''':''' February 9-11, 2011 hosted by Framingham

Revision as of 00:34, 31 October 2011

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, no login required)

  • CHARGE Principles (pdf) : Principles for collaboration in the consortium, approved Jan 2008 by founding cohorts.
  • CHARGE Working Group Principles (pdf) : Principles for collaboration in CHARGE working groups, 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.
  • Results Sharing Format : file format guidelines for sharing of aggregate results for meta-analysis.

Committees & Working Groups

  • CHARGE-S PAGE : The CHARGE Sequencing GWAS follow-up project
  • Working Groups: Directory of phenotype working groups
  • Results Sharing: Listing of file-sharing sites for each Working Group and contributing study, and details about CHARGE results sharing protocols

depts.washington.edu/chargeco/wiki/cgi_img_auth.php/6/65/CHARGE_Bibliography_%28October_20%2C_2011%29.pdf

Consortium Information

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

  • Iceland Meeting: May 2012

Past meetings (includes links to agendas and slides)

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