Generation of a reference cohort with extreme eating behaviour (Z02)

• Subject Area: Endocrinology, Diabetology, Metabolism
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 222193485

We aim to follow-up participants of the reference cohorts to characterise their long-term development of body weight and eating behaviour, to expand phenotype analysis and to serve as a screening and data- and biomaterial generating platform for newly developing projects. The project will continue to serve as recruitment platform for the T-CRC projects who can take advantage of the well-characterised participants of the reference cohorts to focus on specifically defined subgroups and control for possible confounding variables.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 134: Ingestive Behaviour: Homeostasis and Reward
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Lübeck
• Co-Applicant Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Stoffwechselforschung
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Georg Brabant, until 12/2017; Professor Dr. Jens Claus Brüning; Professorin Dr. Meike Kasten; Professorin Dr. Christine Klein; Professorin Dr. Ulrike M. Krämer