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MORGAM Centres, sites and responsible persons |
| Country | Name | Principal Investigator(s) and site(s) |
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| Australia | Newcastle | Patrick McElduff Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle Former Principal Investigator: Annette Dobson, University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| Denmark | Glostrup | Torben Jørgensen Københavns AMT, Centre of Preventive Medicine, Glostrup |
| Finland | FINRISK | Veikko Salomaa National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki |
| ATBC | Jarmo Virtamo National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki |
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| France | PRIME/Strasbourg | Dominique Arveiler Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg |
| PRIME/Toulouse | Jean Ferrières Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse-Purpan, Toulouse |
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| PRIME/Lille | Philippe Amouyel Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Pasteur Institute of Lille |
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| Germany | Augsburg | Annette Peters Former Principal Investigator: Angela Döring Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg |
| Greifswald | Henry Völzke Institute for Community Medicine, University of Greifswald |
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| Italy | Brianza | Giancarlo Cesana and Marco Ferrario University of Milan - Bicocca, Monza |
| Friuli | Diego Vanuzzo and Lorenza Pilotto Centre for Cardiovascular Prevention, ASS4 "Medio Friuli", Udine |
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| Rome | Simona Giampaoli and Luigi Palmieri National Institute of Health, Rome |
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| Lithuania | Kaunas | Abdonas Tamosiunas Former Principal Investigator: Stanislava Domarkiene Kaunas University of Medicine, Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas |
| Poland | Krakow | Andrzej Pajak Department of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow |
| Warsaw | Grazyna Broda Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw |
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| Russian Federation | Novosibirsk | Yuri Nikitin Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk |
| Spain | Catalonia | Susana Sans Institute of Health Studies, Department of Health, Barcelona |
| Sweden | Northern Sweden | Per-Gunnar Wiklund Former Principal Investigator: Birgitta Stegmayr Umeå University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Umeå |
| United Kingdom | PRIME/Belfast | Frank Kee Former Principal Investigator: Alun Evans The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Scotland | Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland |
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| Caerphilly | John Yarnell The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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| France | PRIME/France | Pierre Ducimetière National Institute of Health and Medical Research (U258), Paris |
| Italy | Marco Ferrario University of Insubria, Varese, Italy |
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| Responsible person and site | Role |
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| Alun Evans Centre for Public Health, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Coordinating Centre |
| Kari Kuulasmaa Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland |
Data Centre |
| Markus Perola Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland |
Central Laboratory: extraction, quality control and storage of DNA, genotyping |
| François Cambien INSERM U937, Paris, France |
Genotyping laboratory |
| Denis Shields Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
Genotyping laboratory |
| Stefan Blankenberg Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany |
Biomarker laboratory |
| Thomas Illig Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany |
Genotyping laboratory |
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Organization |
Role |
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| Prof. Alun Evans | Centre for Public Health, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland | Project Coordinator, contact with participating centres and other partners. Meetings, workshops etc. |
| Prof. Stefan Blankenberg | Department of Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany | Biomarkers |
| Dr François Cambien/Dr Laurence Tiret | INSERM U937, Paris, France | Genotyping and quality control, Analysis of the genotypic data. |
| Prof. Marco Ferrario | University of Insubria, Varese, Italy | Epidemiology |
| Prof. Kari Kuulasmaa | MORGAM Data Centre, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland | Coordinating development of statistical methods, data management and quality assessment. |
| Prof. Aarno Palotie | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, England | High-throughput genotyping, Analysis of the genotypic data. |
| Dr Markus Perola | Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland | Extraction, quality control and storage of DNA, High-throughput genotyping, Analysis of the genotypic data. |
| Dr. Annette Peters | Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany | Epidemiology |
| Prof. Veikko Salomaa | Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Public Health Institute, Finland | Genetic epidemiology, Analyses of the genotypic data. |
| Prof. Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe | Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland | Coronary events epidemiology |
| Dr Per-Gunnar Wiklund | University of Umeå, Sweden | Stroke events epidemiology |
| Previous members: | ||
| Prof. Kjell Asplund | Stockholm, Sweden | Stroke events epidemiology |
| Prof. Leena Peltonen | Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland | Coordinator of GenomEUtwin Project |
| Prof. Denis Shields | Clinical Pharmacology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland | Genotypic analysis, Search for polymorphisms, Analysis of the genotypic data. |
| Dr Birgitta Stegmayr | University of Umeå, Sweden | Stroke events epidemiology |
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 © National Institute for Health and Welfare and the MORGAM Project investigators Last updated: 2 September 2011 (KK) For more information, please contact Alun Evans (a.evans  qub.ac.uk) or
Kari Kuulasmaa (firstname.lastname@thl.fi)
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