Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2004

Time: Tuesdays, 2:30-3:18
Place: Cockins 212

• Tuesday, October 5:
  Dr. Kim McBride (Center for Molecular and Human Genetics. Children's Research Institute.)
  The Genetics of Left Sided Congenital Heart Defects.
  Abstract (PDF)
  
  
• Tuesday, October 12:
  Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) workshop
  
  
• Tuesday, November 19:
  Dr. Ray Carroll (Texas A&M University, Dept. of Statistics.)
  -Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Case-Control Studies of Gene-Environment Interactions. Nilanjan Chatterjee and Raymond J. Carroll. Abstract (PDF)
  
  
• Tuesday, October 26:
  Babis Papachristou (Dept. of Statistics.)
  - Whole-Genome Scan, in a Complex Disease, Using 11,245 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms: Comparison with Microsatellites. Sally John et. al. AJHG, 75:54-64, 2004. PDF
  
  
• Tuesday, November 2:
  Zhenqiu Liu (Dept. of Statistics.)
  -Choosing Haplotype-Tagging SNPs Based on Unphased Genotype Data Using a Preliminary Sample of Unrelated Subjects with an Example from the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Daniel O. Stram, et. al. Human Heredity 55: 27-36, 2003. PDF
  
  
• Tuesday, November 9:
  Zailong Wang (Mathematical Biosciences Institute)
  - Normalization for cDNA microarray data: a robust composite method addressing single and multiple slide systematic variation. Yee Hwa Yang, Sandrine Dudoit, Percy Luu, David M. Lin, Vivian Peng, John Ngai, and Terence P. Speed. Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 30, No. 4 e15, 2002. PDF
  
  
• Tuesday, November 16:
  Jie Ding (Dept. of Statistics.)
  -Selection and evaluation of tagging SNPs in the neuronal-sodium-channel gene SCN1A: implications for linkage-disequilibrium gene mapping. Weale ME, Depondt C, Macdonald SJ, Smith A, Lai PS, Shorvon SD, Wood NW, Goldstein DB. Am J Hum Genet 73(3):551-65, 2003.PDF
  
  
• Tuesday, November 23:
  Shuyan Wan (Dept. of Statistics.)
  - Statistical significance for genomewide studies. John D. Storey and Robert Tibshirani. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 100(16):9440-5, 2003. PDF
  
  
• Tuesday, November 30:
  Soledad Fernandez (Biostat Center)
  - Analysis of multilocus models of association. Devlin B, Roeder K, Wasserman L. Genet Epidemiol 25(1):36-47, 2003. PDF