The time-of-day module (TOD) illustrates one of MMC200rs main design goals, which is to make the hardware as close as possible to the application, making it easy for an application to use standard time units like seconds.
A few workers proposed that the training session be extended from its current three-day module to provide more time for discussion and practice.
SAT modules 4 and 8 correlate to HDL, and VAT module 9 correlates to glucose.
Between March 2007 and January 2008 about 130 NPCs were trained during five three-day modules.
Remarkably, several SAT modules were correlated to plasma HDL cholesterol levels and one VAT module was correlated to plasma glucose levels, although these SAT modules contained primarily the same genes as the VAT module.
Of these, 26 are present in SAT modules 4 and 8, which are correlated to HDL levels.
This module was also enriched in inflammatory genes and showed a marked overlap in gene content with the SAT modules related to HDL.
Trainees for the first and second tiers generally gather in the classroom for three-day modules once each month and conduct their fieldwork during the intervening periods.
To further explore the functional relationships between genes in SAT modules 4 and 8 we used KEGG pathway analysis, and PubMed and OMIM gene descriptions.
Of the approximately 70 modules identified in SAT and VAT, three SAT modules were inversely associated with plasma HDL-cholesterol levels, and a fourth module was inversely associated with both plasma glucose and plasma triglyceride levels (p < 5.33 × 10-5).
The genes in this module resemble the genes found in SAT modules 4 and 8; 32 genes are present in both SAT 4 and VAT 9, and 54 genes are present in SAT 8 and VAT 9.
