Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Winter 2012

Time: Thursday 12:30 - 1:30pm
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Thursday April 5:
  Speaker: Meng Wang
  Topic: Regression and Data Mining Methods for Analyses of Multiple Rare Variants in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 Mini-Exome Data
  Bailey-Wilson, J. E. et al
  Genet. Epidemiol., 35: S92-S100.
  
  
• Thursday April 12:
  Speaker: Dao-Peng Chen
  Topic: Removing technical viariability in RNA-seq data using conditional quantile normalization
  Kasper D. Hansen et al
  Biostatistics(2012) 13(2): 204-216
  
  
• Friday April 13:
  Speaker: Jincheol Park (Texas A&M University)
  Time: 9-10am
  Place: CH 212
  Topic: Bayesian Analysis of Geostatistical Models with an Auxiliary Lattice (Click for abstract)
  
  
• Thursday April 19:
  Speaker: Katie Thompson
  Topic: GTI: A Novel Algorithm for Identifying Outlier Gene Expression Profiles from Integrated Microarray Datasets
  Mpindi JP et al
  PLoS ONE (2011) 6(2)
  
  
• Thursday April 26:
  No Meeting
  
  
• Friday April 27:
  Speaker: Xiangtao Liu (Yale University)
  Time: Noon-1:00PM
  Place: CH 212
  Topic: A Pilot Study for Panic Disorder Using Exome Sequencing Data, and System Level Modeling for Dendritic Cell Biogenesis (Click for abstract)
  
  
• Thursday May 3:
  Speaker: Dr. Shili Lin
  Topic: A Statistical Framework for eQTL Mapping Using RNA-seq Data
  Wei Sun
  
  
• Thursday May 10:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: Study Gene and Gene-Environment Effects of Uncommon and Common Variants on Continuous Traits: A Marker-Set Approach Using Gene-Trait Similarity Regression
  Jung-Ying Tzeng et al.
  The American Journal of Human Genetics 2011; 89:277-288
  
  
• Thursday May 17:
  Speaker: Liang Niu
  Topic: Topological Domains in Mammalian Genomes Identified by Analysis of Chromatin Interactions
  Jesse R. Dixon et al.
  Nature (2012)
  
  
• Thursday May 24:
  Speaker: Dr. Lynn Friedman
  Topic: Meta-Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies with Overlapping subjects
  Dan-Yu Lin, Patrick F. Sullivan
  The American Journal of Human Genetics 2009; 85: 862-872
  
  
• Thursday May 31:
  Speaker: Dr. Asuman Turkmen
  Topic: Optimal Test for Rare Variant Effects in Sequencing Association Studies
  Seunggeun Lee et. al.