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Consortium Information (public, no login required)

Infrastructure for the CHARGE Consortium is supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant HL105756.

• CHARGE Overview: Overview of the Consortium and the role of the Research Steering Committee
• Acknowledgements: Funding acknowledgements.
• CHARGE Bibliography
• CHARGE Working Groups
• CHARGE Principles (pdf) : Principles for collaboration in the consortium, approved Jan 2008 by founding cohorts.
• Golden Tiger Awards
• 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.
• Logos : versions of the CHARGE Tiger, with some explanations of its origins.

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.

Committees & Working Groups

• Research Steering Committee: Membership and minutes from the monthly steering committee calls
• 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
• Results Sharing: Details about CHARGE results sharing protocol

Investigator Meetings

CHARGE Bethesda, MD: May 6-8, 2025 (link coming soon)

CHARGE Webinar Series

Past Meetings

• Durham, NC: December 2-4, 2025
• Bethesda, MD: May 6-8, 2025
• Rotterdam, Netherlands: October 15-17, 2024
• Denver, CO: May 22-24, 2024
• San Antonio, TX: October 10-12, 2023
• Boston. MA : May 9-11, 2023
• Seattle, WA: October 12-14, 2022
• Philadelphia, PA: April 27-29, 2022 - Slides and Recordings
• CHARGE Virtual Meeting: Oct 7-8, 2021
• CHARGE Virtual Meeting: May 6-7, 2021
• Houston, TX: January 29-31, 2020
• St. Louis, MO: June 27-28, 2019
• Baltimore, MD: October 11-12, 2018
• Rotterdam, the Netherlands: April 18-19, 2018
• Boston, MA: September 27-28, 2017
• New York, NY : March 23-24, 2017
• Commons Analysis Workshop (Houston, TX): January 24-25, 2017
• Charlottesville, Virginia: September 28-29, 2016
• Houston, Texas: January 26-27, 2016
• Jackson, Mississippi: July 1-2, 2015
• Washington, DC: November 12-13, 2014
• Los Angeles, CA : January 22-24, 2014
• Rotterdam, the Netherlands: June 13-14, 2013
• Houston, TX: December 12-14, 2012
• CHARGE Analysis Workshop (Boston, MA): September 27-28, 2012
• Reykjavik, Iceland : May 16-18, 2012
• Los Angeles, CA: October 26-28, 2011. 
• Boston, MA February 9-11, 2011
• Houston, TX: April 28-30, 2010
• Washington, DC : Oct 29-30, 2009
• Rotterdam, the Netherlands: April 16-17, 2009
• Seattle, WA: July 9-11, 2008
• Framingham, MA: January 22-24, 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)

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