Diabetes mellitus is now fast emerging as one of the biggest health catastrophes the world has ever witnessed. It has huge global and societal implications, particularly in developing countries such as China and India [1]. China is now bring with it potential massive increase in type 1 diabetes (2-5% per annum increases in incidence in the world’s most populous countries) and childhood obesity ...

1. Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville VIC Australia 2. Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton VIC Australia 3. Andrology Australia, Clayton VIC Australia 4. Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Clayton VIC Australia 5. Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC Australia 6. Centre for Health & Society, The University o...

The International Society of Computational Biology presents: the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, May 16–18, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio Jim Cavalcoli, Lonnie Welch, Bruce Aronow, Sorin Draghici and Daisuke Kihara University of Michigan (Steering Committee Chair), Ohio University (Steering Committee Chair), Childrens Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati (Conference Chair), Wayne S...

*College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612; †Center for Comparative Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030-3498; ‡Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799; §University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213; and University o...

1 Department of Neurology, University of Basel Hospital, 4031 Basel, Switzerland 2 Division of Neuropaediatrics, University of Basel Childrens Hospital, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 3 Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria 4 Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany 5 Institut...