Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2003

Time: Tuesdays, 12:00 - 1:30
Place: Cockins 212

• Tuesday, October 7: Babis Papachristou
  Assessing accuracy in linkage analysis by means of confidence regions. Hössjer, Ola, Genetic Epidemiology 25: 59 - 72, 2003. PDF version (228 K).
  
  
• Tuesday, October 14: Babis Papachristou(Cnt'd)
  Assessing accuracy in linkage analysis by means of confidence regions by Hössjer, Ola, Genetic Epidemiology 25: 59 - 72, 2003. PDF version . Slides (ppt) .
  
  
• Tuesday, October 21:Swati Biswas
  Two Locus Heterogeneity Connot Be Distinguished from Two-Locus Epistasis on the Basis of Affected-Sib-Pair Data. Veronica J. Vieland and Jian Huang, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 73:223-232, 2003. PDF version.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 28: Shili Lin
  - A Test for Linkage and Association in General Pedigrees: The Pedigree Disequilibrium Test. Eden R. Martin, Stephanie A. Monks, Liling L. Warren, and Norman L. Kaplan, Am. J. Hum. Genet., 67:146-154, 2000 PDF version.
  - Correcting for a Potential Bias in the Pedigree Disequilibrium Test Eden R. Martin, Meredyth P. Bass, and Norman L. Kaplan, Am. J. Hum. Genet., 68:1065-1067, 2001 PDF version.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 4: Cancelled
  
  
• Tuesday, November 11 : Holiday - Veterans' Day
  
  
• Tuesday, November 18:Soledad Fernandez
  Exploratory screening of genes and clusters from microarray experiments. Tibshirani R, Hastie T, Narasimhan B, Eisen M, Sherlock G, Brown P, and Botstein D. (2001)(technical report) PDF version .
  
  
• Tuesday, November 25:Yoonkyung Lee
  Aberrant CpG island methylation has non-random and tumour type-specific patterns. Costello JF, Frühwald MC, Smiraglia DJ, Rush LJ, Robertson GP, Gao X, Wright FA, Feramisco JD, Peltomaki P, Lang JC, Schuller DE, Yu L, Bloomfield CD, Caligiuri MA, Yates A, Nishikawa R, Juang HJ, Petrelli NJ, Zhang X, O’Dorisio MS, Held WA, Cavenee WK, Plass C. Nature Genetics 2000 Feb; 25(2):132-138. PDF version .