Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Spring 2014

Time: Thursday 10:00 - 11:00
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Thursday Janurary 30:
  Speaker: Asuman Turkmen
  Topic: SERBIA: Set-Based Gene_Environment Interaction Test for Rare and Common Variants in Complex Diseases
  Shuo Jiao et al.
  Genet Epidemiol 2013 37(5):452-64
  
  
• Thursday Feburary 6:
  Speaker: Xiangtao Liu
  Topic: Voom: precision weights unlock linear model analysis tools for RNA-seq read counts
  Charity W Law, Yunshun Chen, Wei Shi and Gordon K Smyth
  Genetic Biology 2014, 15:R29
  
  
• Thursday Feburary 13:
  Speaker: Deepak Ayyala
  Topic: Network-based penalized regression with application to genomic data
  Kim S, Pan W, Shen X
  Biometrics, 2013 Sep;69(3):582-93.
  
  
• Thursday Feburary 20:
  Speaker: Meng Wang
  Topic: Cancelled
  
  
• Thursday Feburary 27:
  Speaker: Shili Lin
  Topic: A Taxonomic Signature of Obesity in the Microbiome? Getting to the Guts of the Matter
  Finucane et al.
  PLoS ONE 2014 Volume 9 e84689
  
  More general reading: Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice
  Ridaura et al.
  SCIENCE VOL 341 6 SEPTEMBER 2013
  
  
• Thursday March 6:
  Speaker: Han Zhang
  Topic: Haplotype Kernel Association Test as a Powerful Method to Identify Chromosomal Regions Harboring Uncommon Causal Variants.
  (Supplementary materials)
  Wan-Yu Lin, Nengjun Yi, Xiang-Yang Lou, Degui Zhi, Kui Zhang, Guimin Gao, Hemant K. Tiwari, and Nianjun Liu.
  Genetic Epidemiology, Vol. 37, No. 6, 560-570, 2013.
  
  
• Thursday March 27:
  Speaker: Lynn Friedman
  Topic: Combining information from interlaboratory evaluations using a random effects model.
  Raghu N Kacker.
  Metrologia (2004) 41:132-136.
  Random-Effects Meta-analysis of Inconsistent Effects: A Time for Change.
  (Supplement materials.)
  John E. Cornell, Cynthia D. Mulrow, Russell Localio, Catharine B. Stack, Anne R. Meibohm, Eliseo Guallar and Steven N. Goodman.
  Ann Intern Med. (2004) 160:267-270.
  
  
  
• Thursday April 3:
  Speaker: Fangyuan Zhang
  Topic: Bayesian mapping of genome-wide epistatic imprinted loci for quantitative traits.
  Shize Li, Xin Wang, Jiahan Li, Tianfu Yang, Lingjiang Min, Yang Liu, Min Lin and Runqing Yang.
  Theor Appl Genet (2012) 124:1561-1571.
  
  
  
• Thursday April 10:
  Speaker: Shuang Xia
  Topic: HapBoost: A Fast Approach to Boosting Haplotype Association Analyses in Genome-Wide Association Studies.
  Xiang Wan, Can Yang, Qiang Yang,Hongyu Zhao, and Weichuan Yu.
  Comput Biol Bioinform. 2013 10(1):207-12.