Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts

Monday, March 20, 2017

*** Alzheimer's Disease NIH, data resources

Limited Competition for the Renewal of the National Cell Repository of Alzheimer's Disease (NCRAD) (U24)

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-214.html

  • The NIA Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS)
  • The NIA Genomic Center for Alzheimer's Disease (GCAD)
  • The National Cell Repository for Alzheimer's Disease (NCRAD)
  • The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC)
  • The Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP)
  • The Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC)
  • The Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs)
  • Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE)
  • The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
  • The National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) and the related milestones  
  • Information relevant to Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD)
  • Other websites designed to store and distribute data related to AD

Friday, September 25, 2015

Red blood cell trait in African Americans

=> Genome-wide association analysis of red blood cell traits in African Americans: the COGENT Network
Zhao Chen1, Hua Tang3, Rehan Qayyum4, Ursula M. Schick5, Michael A. Nalls6, Robert
Handsaker7, Jin Li8, Yingchang Lu10, Lisa R. Yanek15, Brendan Keating16, Yan Meng18,
Frank J.A. van Rooij19, Yukinori Okada20,21,22, Michiaki Kubo23, Laura Rasmussen-Torvik24,
Margaux F. Keller25, Leslie Lange26, Michele Evans27, Erwin P. Bottinger11, Michael D.
Linderman12, Douglas M. Ruderfer13, Hakon Hakonarson8,9,17, George Papanicolaou28,
Alan B. Zonderman29, Omri Gottesman11, BioBank Japan Project, CHARGE Consortium,
Cynthia Thomson2, Elad Ziv30, Andrew B. Singleton25, Ruth J.F. Loos14, Patrick M.A.
Sleiman8,9,17, Santhi Ganesh31, Steven McCarroll32,33, Diane M. Becker4, James G. Wilson34,
Guillaume Lettre35 and Alexander P. Reiner5,36,


=> Genome-wide association study of white blood cell count in 16,388 African Americans: the continental origins and genetic epidemiology network (COGENT).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738479
2011 Jun;7(6):e1002108. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002108. Epub 2011 Jun 30.