Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Autumn 2014

Time: Tuesday 4:10 - 5:05 PM
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Tuesday September 16:
  Speaker: Asuman Turkmen
  Topic: A Linkage Disequilibrium Based Approach to Selecting Disease-Associated Rare Variants
  Talluri R, Shete S
  PLoS ONE. 2013 8(7): e69226
  
  
• Tuesday September 23:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: Genome-wide map of regulatory interactions in the human genome
  Supplementary material
  Heidari N, Phanstiel D, He C, Grubert F, Jahanbani F, Kasowski M, Zhang M and Snyder M
  Genome Res. published online September 16, 2014
  
  
• Tuesday September 30:
  Speaker: Deepak Ayyala
  Topic: The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women
  Romero R, Hassan S, Gajer P, Tarca A, Fadrosh D, Nikita L, Galuppi M, Lamont R, Chaemsaithong P, Miranda J, Chaiworapongsa T and Ravel J.
  Microbiome 2014, 2:4
  
  
• Tuesday October 14:
  Speaker: Degang Zhu
  Topic: Association Testing of Clustered Rare Causal Variants in Case-Control Studies
  Wan-Yu Lin
  PLoS ONE. 2014 9(4): e94337
  
  
• Tuesday October 21:
  Speaker: Matt Brems
  Topic: Association tests through combining p-values for case control genome-wide association studies
  Zhongxue Chen
  Statistics and Probability Letters 83 (2013) 1854-1862
  
  
• Tuesday October 28:
  Speaker: Han Zhang
  Topic: A data-smoothing approach to explore and test gene-environment interaction in case-parent trios
  Ji-Hyung Shin, Claire Infante-Rivard, Brad McNeney and Jinko Graham
  Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2014; 13(2): 159-171
  
  
• Tuesday November 4:
  Speaker: Farhad Shokoohi
  Topic: Estimation and Accuracy After Model Selection
  Bradley Efron
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 2014; 109(507): 991-1022
  
  
• Tuesday November 18:
  Speaker: Lynn Friedman
  Topic: General Framework for Meta-analysis of Rare Variants in Sequencing Association Studies
  Seunggeun Lee, Tanya M. Teslovich, Michael Boehnke, and Xihong Lin
  The American Journal of Human Genetics (2013) 93, 42-53
  
  
• Tuesday November 25:
  Speaker: Shili Lin
  Topic: A statistical approach for inferring the 3D structure of the genome
  Nelle Varoquaux, Ferhat Ay, William Stafford Noble, and Jean-Philippe Vert
  Bioinformatics (2014) 30, i26-i33