Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2010

Time: Wednesdays 4:00-5:00pm
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Wednesday, October 6:
  Liang Niu (Dept of Stat)
  An integrated software system for analyzing ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq data
  Hongkai Ji, Hui Jiang, Wenxiu Ma, David S Johnson, Richard M Myers and Wing H Wong
  Nature Biotechnology 26, 1293 - 1300 (2008)
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• Wednesday, October 13:
  Cenny Taslim (Dept of Stat)
  Small Sample Estimation of Negative Binomial Dispersion, with applications to SAGE data
  Mark D. Robinson and Gordon K. Smyth
  Biostatistics Volume 9, Issue 2, 321-332 (2008)
  
  
• Wednesday, October 20:
  Katie Thompson (Dept of Stat)
  Genomic outlier profile analysis: mixture models, null hypotheses, and nonparametric estimation
  Debashis Ghosh and Arul M. Chinnaiyan
  Biostatistics Volume10, Issue1, 60–69 (2009)
  
  
• Wednesday, October 27:
  Dao-Peng Chen (Dept of Stat)
  High-Resolution Analysis of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in the Mouse Brain
  Christopher Gregg, Jiangwen Zhang, Brandon Weissbourd, Shujun Luo, Gary P. Schroth, David Haig and Catherine Dulac
  Science 329, 643-648 (2010)
  
  
• Wednesday, November 10:
  Lynn Friedman (Dept of Stat)
  A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data
  Mark D Robinson and Alicia Oshlack
  Genome Biology, 2010,11:R25
  
  
• Wednesday, November 17:
  Prof. Asuman Turkmen (Dept of Stat)
  Methods for Detecting Associations with Rare Variants for Common Diseases: Application to Analysis of Sequence Data
  Bingshan Li and Suzanne M. Leal
  The American Journal of Human Genetics 83, 311–321 (2008)
  
  
• Wednesday, November 24:
  Meng Wang (Dept of Stat)
  An Evaluation of Statistical Approaches to Rare Variant Analysis in Genetic Association Studies
  Andrew P. Morris and Eleftheria Zeggini
  Genetic Epidemiology 34, 188–193 (2010)
  
  
• Wednesday, December 1:
  Prof. Shili Lin (Dept of Stat)
  On the Optimal Design of Genetic Variant Discovery Studies
  Iuliana Ionita-Laza and Nan M. Laird
  Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Volume 9, Issue 1, Article 33 (2010)