Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Reading Group
Spring 2018

Time: Fridays 3:00 PM - 3:55 PM
Place: Cockins 232

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

• Friday January 19
  Discussion Leader: Hengrui Luo
  New multilocuslinkagedisequilibriummeasurefortag SNP selection
  by Liao et al. Journal ofBioinformaticsandComputationalBiology Vol. 15,No.1(2017)1750001.
  
  
• Friday January 26
  Discussion Leader: Anjali Agarwal
  Sequence kernel association test of multiple continuous phenotypes
  by Wu and Pankow, Genet Epidemiol. 2016 40(2): 91–100
  
  
• Friday February 9
  Discussion Leader: Xiaoyu Cai
  The screening and ranking algorithm for change-points detection in multiple samples
  by Chi Song, Xiaoyi Min and Heping Zhang.
  
  
• Friday February 16
  Discussion Leader: Meng Wang
  Fast Principal-Component Analysis Reveals Convergent Evolution of ADH1B in Europe and East Asia
  by Galinsky et al.
  
  
• Friday February 23
  Discussion Leader: Chenggong Han
  A hidden Markov random field-based Bayesian method for the detection of long-range chromosomal interactions in Hi-C data
  by Xu et al.
  
  
• Friday March 9
  Discussion Leader: Shuyuan Lou
  Mango: a bias-correcting ChIA-PET analysis pipeline
  by Phanstiel et al.
  
  
• Friday March 30
  Discussion Leader: Hancong Tang and Qing Xie
  Identifying genetic marker sets associated with phenotypes via an efficient adaptive score test
  by Cai et al.
  
  
• Friday April 6
  Discussion Leader: Asuman Turkmen
  Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG
  by Turley et al.
  
  
• Friday April 13
  Discussion Leader: Xiaofei Zhou
  Simple Association Analysis Combining Data From Trios/Sibships and Unrelated Controls
  by Chen and Lin, and
  Increasing the power of association studies with affected families, unrelated cases and controls
  by Stwart and Cerise.