Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Reading Group
Spring 2017

Time: Tuesday 11:30 AM - 12:25 PM
Place: Cockins Hall 212

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

• Tuesday January 17:
  All members
  Topic: Organizational meeting
  
  
  
• Tuesday January 24
  Discussion Co-Leaders: Xiaofei Zhou and Hengrui Luo
  Multiple-trait genome-wide association study based on principal component analysis for residual covariance matrix
  by Gao et al. Heredity (Edinb). 2014 Dec; 113(6): 526–532.
  
  
• Tuesday February 7 :
  Discussion Co-Leaders: Shuyuan Lou, Chenggong Han, and Hancong Tang
  MultiPhen: Joint Model of Multiple Phenotypes Can Increase Discovery in GWAS
  by O’Reilly et al. PLoS One May 2012 Volume 7 Issue 5 e34861
  
  
• Tuesday February 21:
  Discussion Leader: Jennifer Sinnott
  Estimation and Testing for Multiple Regulation of Multivariate Mixed Outcomes
  by Agniel et al. Biometrics 72, 1194–1205, 2016.
  
  
• Tuesday March 7:
  Discussion Leader: Asuman Turkmen
  Powerful and adaptive testing for multi-trait and multi-SNP associations with GWAS and sequencing data
  by Kim et al. Genetics: Early Online, DOI:10.1534/genetics.115.186502
  
  
• Tuesday March 21:
  Discussion Leaders: Xiaoyu Cai and Jung Woong Kim
  Multivariate Phenotype Association Analysis by Marker-Set Kernel Machine Regression
  by Maity et al. Genet Epidemiol. 2012 November ; 36(7): 686–695
  
  
• Tuesday April 4
  Discussion Leader: Anjali Agarwal and Shili Lin
  A Statistical Approach for Testing Cross-Phenotype Effects of Rare Variants
  by Broadaway et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics 98, 525–540.
  
  
• Tuesday April 18:
  Discussion Leader: Meng Wang
  Genetic Variant Selection: Learning Across Traits and Sites
  by Stell et al. Genetics, Vol. 202, 439–455