Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Reading Group
Spring 2016

Time: Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:05 PM
Place: Cockins Hall 228

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

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Summer Biomedical Big Data Workshop at Purdue, July 11, 2016 at Purdue University
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• Thursday January 14:
  All members
  Topic: Organizational meeting
  
  
  
• Thursday February 4:
  Discussion Leader: Jennifer Sinnott
  More powerful genetic association testing via a new statistical frame- work for integrative genomics
  by Zhao et al. Biometrics 2014 Dec;70(4):881-90
  
  
• Thursday February 11:
  Discussion Leaders: Meng Wang, Xiaofei Zhou, and Han Zhang
  Link to TCGA database
  Xiaofei Zhou's slides
  
  
  
• Thursday February 25:
  Discussion Leaders: Meng Wang, Xiaofei Zhou, and Han Zhang
  Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways
  Supplementary document
  Supplementary Tables
  by Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Nature 2008 Oct 23;455(7216):1061-8.
  
  
• Thursday March 17:
  Discussion Leader: Jennifer Sinnott
  R package(s) for processing TCGA data
  
  
  
• Thursday March 31:
  Discussion Leader: Chi Song
  Inference of patient-specific pathway activities from multi-dimensional cancer genomics data using PARADIGM
  by Vaske et al. Bioinformatics Vol. 26 2010, pages i237-i245
  
  
• Tuesday April 12:
  Discussion Leader: Shili Lin
  Joint analysis of SNP and gene expression data in genetic association studies of complex diseases
  Supplementary Materials
  by Huang et al. Ann Appl Stat. 2014 Mar 1;8(1):352-376.
  
  
• Thursday April 21:
  Discussion Leader: Lo-Bin Chang
  BAG: integrative Bayesian analysis of high-dimensional multiplatform genomics data
  by Wang et al. Bioinformatics Vol. 29 no. 2 2013, pages 149–159.