Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Spring 2013

Time: Friday 3:30 - 4:25 PM
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Friday 1/18:
  Speaker: Xiangtao Liu
  Topic: How to use OSC facility
  
  
• Friday January 25:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: The Silence of Genes
  Philip Hunter
  EMBO Rep. 2007 May; 8(5):441-443
  
  
• Friday February 1:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: Detecting Gene-Environment Interaction using Logistic Bayesian Lasso and using B-Splines and LBL for Longitudinal Data.
  The Role of Haplotypes in Candidate Gene Studies
  Andrew G.Clark
  Genetic Epidemiology 27: 321-333 (2004)
  
  
• Friday February 8:
  Speaker: William Stewart
  Topic: Simple Association Analysis Combining Data From Trios/Sibships and Unrelated Controls.
  Chen YH, Lin HW
  Genetic epidemiology 2008, 32(6):520-527
  
  
• Friday February 15:
  Speaker: Will Ray
  Topic:
  The Plane with Parallel Coordinates.
  Alfred Inselberg
  The Visual Computer (1985) 1:69-91
  Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data.
  John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando Pereira
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Machine Learning 2001 (ICML 2001):282-289
  
  
• Friday February 22:
  Speaker: Meng Wang
  Topic: Haplotype-Based Methods for Detecting Uncommon Causal Variants With Common SNPs.
  Wan-Yu Lin, Nengjun Yi, Degui Zhi, Kui Zhang, Guimin Gao, Hemant K. Tiwari, and Nianjun Liu.
  Genetic Epidemiology 36 : 572-582 (2012)
  
  
• Friday March 1:
  Speaker: Xiangtao Liu
  Topic: A Probabilistic Method for Identifying Rare Variants Underlying Complex Traits.
  Jiayin Wang, Zhongmeng Zhao, Zhi Cao, Aiyuan Yang, Jin Zhang.
  BMC Genomics 2013, 14(Suppl 1):S11
  
  
• Friday March 8:
  Speaker: Lynn Friedman
  Topic:
  Heterogeneity in Meta-Analyses of Genome-Wide Association Investigations.
  John P. A. Ioannidis, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, Evangelos Evangelou.
  PLoS ONE 2007 2(9): e841
  Undue Reliance on I² in Assessing Heterogeneity May Mislead.
  Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, James R Carpenter and Martin Schumacher.
  BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:79
  
  
• Friday March 22:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: Rare Variant Analysis for Family-Based Design.
  Gourab De, Wai-Ki Yip, Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Nan Laird
  PLoS ONE 2013, 8(1): e48495
  
  
• Friday March 29:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: Detecting Maternal-Effect Loci by Statistical Cross-Fostering.
  Jason Wolf and James M. Cheverud
  Genetics, 2012,Vol. 191, 261-277
  
  
  
• Friday April 5:
  Speaker: Asuman Turkmen
  Topic: Adjustment for Population Stratification via Principal Components in Association Analysis of Rare Variants.
  Y Zhang, W Guan, W Pan
  Genetic epidemiology, 2013 Jan; 37(1): 99-109
  
  
  
• Friday April 12:
  Speaker: Jincheol Park
  Topic: Random Effect Models for inference on 3D Architecture of Chromatin
  Related paper: Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome
  Erez Lieberman-Aiden,Nynke L. van Berkum, Louise Williams, Maxim Imakaev,Tobias Ragoczy et al.
  SCIENCE 2009 VOL 326
  
  
• Friday April 19:
  Speaker: Shili Lin
  Topic: Dirichlet Multinomial Mixtures: Generative Models for Microbial Metagenomics.
  Ian Holmes, Keith Harris, Christopher Quince
  PLoS ONE 2012, 7(2): e30126