Researchers need to know what studies are being conducted. To help with this discovery of data, InterConnect created an online registry of studies relevant to gene-environment interaction in diabetes and obesity.

Our approach is to enable wide coverage of studies with a limited set of information that can largely be collated from information already in the public domain. This creates little burden for each individual study while enabling sign-posting of a large number of studies useful for cross-cohort analyses. Meta-data included in the registry comprises:

• Study name, contact, reference paper, website
• Study design, timeline, number of participants
• Broad categories of ethnic and racial groups recruited
• Health information at baseline and during follow up, as well as key exposures
• Participant selection criteria and recruitment procedures

You can view and search the registry here.

Email InterConnectRegistry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk if you would like to include your study in the registry.

The study registry also catalogues harmonisation algorithms from the exemplar studies for re-use, making it easier for researchers to harmonise similar data sets in future.