Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2013

Time: Thursday 11:15 - 12:15
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Thursday September 5:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: Research Talk: Asymptotic Properties of Partial Likelihood Inference for Imprinting and Maternal Effects
  
  
• Thursday September 12:
  Speaker: Deepak Ayyala
  Topic: A Bayesian approach to inferring the phylogenetic structure of communities from metagenomic data
  John O'Brien, Xavier Didelot, Zamin Iqbal,Lucas Amenga-Etego, Bartu Ahiska, Daniel Falush.
  Quantitative Biology (submitted on 26 Jun 2013).
  
  
• Thursday September 19:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: Research Talk: Detection of Dynamic Effects of Rare Haplotypes and Their Interaction with Environmental Factor on Complex Disease
  
  
• Thursday September 26:
  Speaker: Asuman Turkmen
  Topic: A novel method for identifying nonlinear gene-environment interactions in case-control association studies
  Cen Wu, Yuehua Cui.
  Hum Genet. 2013 Aug 24.
  
  
• Thursday October 3:
  Speaker: Deepak Ayyala
  Topic: Research Talk: Graphical representation of microbial community subpopulations using penalized Kendall's distance
  
  
• Thursday October 10:
  Speaker: Xiangtao Liu
  Topic: Identification of Small Exonic CNV from Whole-Exome Sequence Data and Application to Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Christopher S. Poultney et al.
  The American Journal of Human Genetics 93, 607-619, October 3, 2013.
  
  
• Thursday October 17:
  Speaker: Xiangtao Liu
  Topic: Research Talk: Functional SNPs for Prostate Cancer
  
  
• Thursday October 24:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: A Unified Framework Integrating Parent-of-Origin Effects for Association Study
  Xiao F, Ma J, Amos CI.
  2013 PLoS ONE 8(8): e72208.
  
  
• Thursday October 31:
  Speaker: Han Zhang
  Topic: Multiple Regression Methods Show Great Potential for Rare Variant Association Tests
  ChangJiang Xu, Martin Ladouceur, Zari Dastani, J. Brent Richards, Antonio Ciampi,Celia M. T. Greenwood
  2012 PLoS ONE 7(8): e41694.
  
  
• Thursday November 7(cancelled)
  
  
• Thursday November 14:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: A Latent Variable Approach to Study Gene-Environment Interactions in the Presence of Multiple Correlated Exposures
  Brisa N. Sánchez, Shan Kang, and Bhramar Mukherjee
  2012 Biometrics 68, 466-476.
  
  
• Thursday November 21:
  Speaker: Shili Lin
  Topic: BSmooth: from whole genome bisulfite sequencing reads to differentially methylated regions
  Kasper D Hansen, Benjamin Langmead, and Rafael A Irizarry.
  Genome Biology 2012, 13:R83.