Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2012

Time: Thursday 9:00 - 9:55am
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Thursday Sep 13:
  Speaker: Shili Lin
  Topic: How to Build a R package
  
  
• Thursday Sep 20:
  Speaker: Jincheol Park
  Topic: Bayesian Inference of Spatial Organizations of Chrmosomes
  Ming H. et al
  
  
• Thursday Sep 27:
  Speaker: Dao-Peng Chen
  Topic: Using Poisson Mixed-effects Model to Quantify Transcript-level Gene Expression in RNA-Seq
  Hu M et al
  Bioinformatics, 28(1): 63 - 68 (2012)
  
  
• Thursday Oct 4:
  Speaker: Meng Wang
  Topic: Handling Marker-Marker Linkage Disequilibrium: Pedigree Analysis with Clustered Markers
  Abecasis G and Wigginton J
  Am. J. Hum. Genet. 77:754-767, 2005
  
  
• Thursday Oct 11:
  Speaker: William Stewart
  Topic: Simple Association Analysis Combining Data From Trios/Sibship and Unrelated Controls
  Chen Y and Lin H
  Genetic Epidemiology 32:520-527 (2008)
  
  
• Thursday Oct 18:
  Speaker: Liu Xiangtao
  Topic: ChIA-PET Tool for Comprehensive Chromatin Interaction Analysis with Paired-end Tag Sequencing
  Li G et al
  Genome Biology 2010, 11:R22
  Suggestive Readings: ChIA-PET Analysis of Transcriptional Chromatin Interactions
  A Global Map of p53 Transcription-Factor Binding Sites in the Human Genome
  Supplemental Data to "A Global Map of p53 Transcription-Factor Binding Sites in the Human Genome".
  
  
• Thursday Oct 25:
  Speaker: Asuman Turkmen
  Topic: Detecting Association of Rare and Common Variants by Testing an Optimally Weighted Combination of Variants
  Sha Q. et al
  Genet. Epidemiol., 36(6): 561-571.
  
  
• Thursday Nov 1:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: A Powerful Parent-of-origin Effect Test for Qualitative Traits Incorportating Control Children in Nuclear Families
  Zhou JY et al
  Journal of Human Genetics (2012) 00, 1-8
  
  
• Thursday Nov 8:
  Speaker: Lynn Friedman
  Topic: Unrecognized Sequence Homologies May Confound Genome-wide Association Studies
  Galichon P. et al
  Nucleic Acids Research 2012, 1-9
  
  
• Thursday Nov 15:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: Genetic and Lifestyle Predictors of 15-Year Longitudinal Change in Episodic Memory
  Josefsson M et al
  J Am geriatr Soc 2012