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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, 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

• Research Steering Committee: Membership and minutes
• Analysis Subcommittee: Resources and references for doing analyses, and minutes of analysis calls
• CHARGE-S PAGE : The CHARGE Sequencing GWAS follow-up project
• Exome Chip: Coordinated consortium-wide genotyping & analyses of Exome Chip data
• 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

Consortium Information

Infrastructure for the CHARGE Consortium is supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant HL105756. Additional acknowledgements are available at Acknowledgements.

• CHARGE Consortium : Public consortium website
• Acknowledgements: Funding acknowledgements.
• Logos : versions of the CHARGE Tiger, with some explanations of its origins.
• CHARGE  Bibliography as of June 22, 2015

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

2016 January CHARGE CARDIA meeting page:

• Houston, TX:January  26 & 27,  2016

Broadcast message August 8, 2015

Dear CHARGE Colleagues,

On behalf of the 2016 CHARGE CARDIA Meeting Organizing Committee: Myriam Fornage, Bruce Psaty, and the CHARGE RSC; I am pleased to inform you that the next CHARGE Investigator meeting will take place on Tuesday January 26 and Wednesday January 27, in Houston Texas. Additionally, a limited number of meeting rooms will be available the afternoon of Monday January 25, for working groups that plan to arrive early.  Please save the dates.  More details to follow. 

Thank you,

Ann Walsh on behalf of CHARGE CARDIA Meeting Organizing Committee: Myriam Fornage, Bruce Psaty, and the CHARGE RSC

Past Meetings

• Jackson, Mississippi: July 1-2, 2015
• Washington, DC: November 12-13 2014
• Los Angeles, California : January 22-24, 2014
• Rotterdam Meeting: June 13-14, 2013
• Houston Texas Meeting December 12-14, 2012
• CHARGE Analysis Workshop September 27 & 28, 2012 Boston, MA
• Iceland Meeting : May 16-18 2012
• Los Angeles Meeting : October 26-28, 2011. 
• Boston Meeting: February 9-11, 2011
• Houston Meeting: April 28-30, 2010
• 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

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• Time Zones: Useful information for setting up conference calls
• Consult the User's Guide or MediaWiki FAQ for information on using the wiki software.