Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Spring 2011

Time: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30pm
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Tuesday, April 5:
  Liang Niu (Dept of Stat)
  Assigning Significance to Peptides Identified by Tandem Mass Spectrometry Using Decoy Databases
  L. Kall et al.
  Journal of Proteome Research, 7, 29-34 (2008)
  Statistical Validation of Peptide Identifications in Large-Scale Proteomics Using the Target-Decoy Database Search Strategy and Flexible Mixture Modeling
  H Choi et al.
  Journal of Proteome Research,7, 286-292 (2008)
  
  
• Tuesday, April 12:
  Katie Thompson (Dept of Stat)
  Detecting Outlier Samples in Microarray Data
  Albert D. Shieh and Yeung Sam Hung
  Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, Article 13 (2009)
  
  
• Tuesday, April 19:
  Cenny Taslim (Dept of Stat)
  Discovery and characterization of chromatin states for systematic annotation of the human genome
  Jason Ernst and Manolis Kellis
  Nature Biotechnology, 28, 817-825 (2010)
  
  
• Tuesday, April 26:
  Dao-Peng Chen (Dept of Stat)
  Effect of read-mapping biases on detecting allele- specific expression from RNA-sequencing data
  Jacob F. Degner et al.
  Bioinformatics, Vol. 25, Iss. 24, 3207-3212 (2009)
  
  
• Tuesday, May 3:
  Prof. Hong Zhu (College of Public Health)
  Haplotype-based pharmacogenetic analysis for longitudinal quantitative traits in the presence of dropout
  Jung-Ying Tzeng et al.
  Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 20, 334–350 (2010)
  
  
• Thursday, May 5 (Special Semniar):
  Yanzhu Lin (Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
  Fitting High-Dimensional Regression Models via Supervised Dimension Reduction
  
  
• Tuesday, May 10:
  Prof. Asuman Turkmen (Dept of Stat)
  Pathway-based Analysis for Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Supervised Principal Components
  Xi Chen et al.
  Genetic Epidemiology, Vol 34, 716-724 (2010)
  
  
• Tuesday, May 17:
  Danielle Sullivan (Dept of Stat)
  Genotype-Based Association Mapping of Complex Diseases: Gene-Environment Interactions with Multiple Genetic Markers and Measurement Error in Environmental Exposures
  Iryna Lobach et al.
  Genetic Epidemiology, Vol 34, 792–802 (2010)
  
  
• Tuesday, May 24:
  Jared Wasserman (Dept of Stat)
  An improved empirical bayes approach to estimating differential gene expression in microarray time-course data: BETR (Bayesian Estimation of Temporal Regulation)
  Martin J. Aryee et al.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 10:409 (2009)
  
  
• Tuesday, May 31:
  Dr. Lynn Friedman (Dept of Stat)
  Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia
  MYM Ng et al.
  Molecular Psychiatry, 14, 774–785 (2009)