The DIAB-CORE Consortium has been launched in order to establish a joint pool of population-based data on persons with and without diabetes.
On the basis of the definition of the DIAB-CORE Consortium, 25 a T2DM case was defined as a self-reported physician-diagnosed T2DM or self-reported T2DM treatment (insulin, oral antidiabetic agents, dietary treatment).
The DIAB-CORE Consortium consists of the following population-based studies (from north to south): the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP, Greifswald), the Dortmund Health Study DHSS, Dortmund), the Cardiovascular Disease, Living and Ageing (CARLA, Halle (Saale)) Study, the Heinz Nixdorf-Recall (HNR, Risk Factors, Evaluation of Coronary Calcification, and Lifestyle, Bochum, Essen, Mülheim a. d.
A "core area" consortium in the new network, made up of big nonuniversity research centers, will get about 38% of the money.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/525/prepub The work is part of the Diabetes Competence Network including the DIAB-CORE (Collaborative Research of Epidemiologic Studies) Consortium which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research.
CTW, CYC and HCC were partially supported by NSC99-3112-B-010-019 aNSC100-2319-B-010-002002 (Taiwan Bioinformaticoreonsortium core facility of the National Core Facility Program for Biotechnology, National Science Council).
Their organizations are the core partners of the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening, which has received support from USAID to carry out democracy assistance efforts in Nigeria and elsewhere.
The glycan array analysis was conducted by the Protein-Carbohydrate Interaction Core H of The Consortium for Functional Glycomics.
A glycan array undertaken at Core H of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics revealed a specificity of SSL5 for glycans containing the sLacNac terminus.
We would like to thank Core H of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta) for undertaking the glycan array study to identify the SSL5-binding glycans.
