Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Spring 2010

Time: Wednesdays 1:30-2:18pm
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Wednesday, April 7:
  Jingyuan Yang (Dept of Stat)
  Bayesian inference of epistatic interactions in case-control studies
  Yu Zhang and Jun S. Liu
  Nature Genetics 93(9):1167-1173, 2007
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• Wednesday, April 21:
  Erik Bloomquist (MBI)
  Understanding mechanisms underlying human gene expression variation with RNA sequencing
  Joseph K. Pickrell et al
  Nature 464:768-772, 2010
  Statistical inferences for isoform expression in RNA-Seq
  Hui Jiang and Wing Hung Wong
  Bioinformatics 25 (8):1026-1032, 2009
  
  
• Wednesday, May 5:
  Liang Niu (Dept of Stat)
  Statistical inferences for isoform expression in RNA-Seq
  Hui Jiang and Wing Hung Wong
  Bioinformatics 25 (8):1026-1032, 2009
  Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq
  Ali Mortazavi, Brian A Williams, Kenneth McCue, Lorian Schaeffer and Barbara Wold
  Nature Methods 5 (7):621-628, 2008
  
  
• Wednesday, May 12:
  Cenny Taslim (Dept of Stat)
  A signal-noise model for significance analysis of ChIP-seq with negative control
  Han Xu, Lusy Handoko, Xueliang Wei, Chaopeng Ye, Jianpeng Sheng, Chia-Lin Wei, Feng Lin and Wing-Kin Sung
  Bioinformatics 26 (9): 1199-1204, 2010
  
  
• Wednesday, May 19:
  Prof. Shili Lin (Dept of Stat)
  Key considerations for measuring allelic expression on a genomic scale using high-throughput sequencing
  Pierre Fontanillas et al.
  Molecular Ecology 19 (Suppl. 1), 212-227, 2009
  
  
• Wednesday, May 26:
  Lynn Friedman (Dept of Stat)
  A comparison of meta-analysis methods for detecting differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments
  Fangxin Hong and Rainer Breitling
  Bioinformatics 24 (3): 374–382, 2008