Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2011

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

• Friday, September 30:
  Meng Wang (Dept of Stat)
  A New Testing Strategy to Identify Rare Variants with Either Risk or Protective Effect on Disease
  Iuliana Ionita-Laza et al.
  PLoS Genetics, 7, 1 - 6, (2011)
  
  
• Friday, October 7:
  Dao-Peng Chen
  Detection of Parent-of-Origin Effects for Quantitative Traits in Complete and Incomplete Nuclear Families With Multiple ChildrenM
  Feng He et al.
  American Journal of Epidemiology, 2, 226 - 233, (2011)
  
  
• Friday, October 14:
  No Meeting
  
  
• Friday, October 21:
  New Venue: Scott Lab E0245
  Jared Wasserman (Dept of Stat)
  SoDA2: A Hidden Markov Model Approach For Identification of immunoglobulin Rearrangements
  Munshaw S, et al.
  r BMC Bioinformatics, 26:867-872 (2010)
  
  
• Friday, October 28:
  Cenny Taslim (Dept of Stat)
  Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Made Simple
  Irizarry R A, et al.
  Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 18, 565 - 575 (2009)
  
  
• Friday, November 4:
  Prof. Asuman Turkmen (Dept of Stat)
  Comparison of Statistical Tests for Disease Association with Rare Variants
  Sanoli Basu, Wei Pan
  
  
• Friday, November 18:
  Dr. Lynn Friedman (Dept of Stat)
  Random-Effect Model Aimed at Discovering Associations in Meta-Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies
  Buhm Han et al.
  Am. J. Hum. Genet. 73: 586 - 598, (2011)
  
  
• Friday, December 2:
  Liang Niu (Dept of Stat)
  Three-dimensional Modeling of Chromatin Structure from Interaction frequency Data Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling
  Mathieu Rousseau et al.
  BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:414