Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Reading Group
Autumn 2017

Time: Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:05 PM
Place: Dulles 016

For further information about this semester's reading group, please contact Shili Lin.

• Thursday September 7:
  Discussion Leader: Meng Wang
  A composite likelihood ratio approach to the analysis of correlated binary data in genetic association studies
  by Baskurt and Strug.
  
  
• Thursday September 21
  Discussion Leader: Xiaoyu Cai
  A Powerful and Adaptive Association Test for Rare Variants
  by Pan et al. Genetics, Vol. 197, 1081–1095 August 2014
  
  
• Thursday October 5
  Discussion Leader: Hancong Tang
  Integrative modeling of multiple genomic data from different types of genetic association studies
  by YEN-TSUNG HUANG, Biostatistics (2014), 15, 4, pp. 587–602.
  
  
• Thursday October 19 :
  Discussion Leader: Shuyuan Lou
  MICC: an R package for identifying chromatin interactions from ChIA-PET data
  Supplementary document
  by He et al. Bioinformatics, 31(23), 2015, 3832–3834.
  
  
• Thursday October 26 :
  Discussion Leader: Asuman Turkmen
  Powerful Genetic Association Analysis for Common or Rare Variants with High-Dimensional Structured Traits
  by Zhan et al. Genetics, Vol. 206, 1779–1790 August 2017.
  
  
• Thursday Novembe 2
  Discussion Leader: Chenggong Han
  Inferential modeling of 3D chromatin structure
  by Wang et al. Nucleic Acids Research, 2015, Vol. 43, No. 8 e54
  
  
• Thursday November 9 :
  Discussion Leader: Pei Yang
  Assessing the validity and reproducibility of genome-scale predictions
  by Sugden et al. Bioinformatics, Vol. 29 no. 22 2013, pages 2844–2851.
  
  
• Thursday November 30
  Discussion Leader: Xiaofei Zhou
  Semiparametric Regression of Multidimensional Genetic Pathway Data: Least-Squares Kernel Machines and Linear Mixed Models
  by Liu et al. BIOMETRICS 63, 1079-1088, 2007.