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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMedCentral Methodology Open Access Sib-recruitment for studying migration and its impact on obesity and diabetes Tanica Lyngdoh1, Sanjay Kinra2, Yoav Ben Shlomo2, Srinath Reddy1,3, Dorairaj Prabhakaran1,3, George Davey Smith2, Shah Ebrahim*4 and the Indian migration study group Address: 1Centre for Chronic Disease Control, T-7, Green Park Extn, Delhi, 110 016, India 2Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, UK 3All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nager, Delhi, India and 4Department of Epidemiology Population Health, Keppel St London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine, London, UK Email: Tanica Lyngdoh - tanica@; Sanjay Kinra - sanjay.kinra@bristol.ac.uk; Yoav Ben Shlomo - yoav@epi.bris.ac.uk; Srinath Reddy - ksreddy@; Dorairaj Prabhakaran - dprabhakaran@; George Davey Smith - zetkin@bristol.ac.uk; Shah Ebrahim* - shah.ebrahim@bristol.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 13 March 2006 Received: 26 September 2005 Accepted: 13 March 2006 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology2006, 3:2 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-3-2 This article is available from: /content/3/1/2 ? 2006Lyngdoh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Urban-rural comparisons are of limited relevance in examining the effects of urban migration in developing countries where urbanisation is due to growth of existing urban populations, expansion of urban boundaries, and rural in-migration. Cultural, genetic and life-style backgrounds of migrants and host populations further limit the value of rural-urban comparisons. Therefore we evaluated a sib-comparison design intended to overcome the limitations of urban- rural