Statistical Genetics Journal Club - Winter 2002

Time: Tuesdays 2:30 - 3:18 p.m.
Place: Cockins 212

• Tuesday, January 15: Swati Biswas
  Mixture models for linkage analysis of affected sibling pairs and covariates by Devlin, B.; Jones, Bobby L.; Bacanu, Silviu-Alin; Roeder, Kathryn. Genetic Epidemiology 22: 52-65, January 2002. PDF version (71K).
  
  
• Tuesday, January 22: Zachary Skrivanek and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu.
  Basic Local Alignment Search Tool by Altschul, S.F.; Gish, W.; Miller, W.; Myers, E.W.; Lipman, D.J. J. Mol Biol 215: 403-410, 1990. PDF version (2100K).
  
  
• Tuesday, January 29: Babis Papachristou
  Linkage Strategies for Genetically Complex Traits. III. The Effect of Marker Polymorphism on Analysis of Affected Relative Pairs by Risch, N. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 46: 242-253, 1990. PDF version (684K).
  
  
• Tuesday, February 5: Currently no presentation scheduled.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 12: Roxana Alexandridis
  Microarrays, Empirical Bayes Methods, and False Discovery Rates by Efron, B., Storey, J.D., and Tibshirani, R. Technical Report, July 2001. PDF version (305 K).
  
  
• Tuesday, February 19: Meng Chen
  A Sibship Test for Linkage in the Presence of Association: The Sib Transmission/Disequilibrium Test by Spielman, R.S. and Ewens, W.J. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 62: 450-458, 1998. PDF version (343 K).
  
  
• Tuesday, February 26: Yuqun Luo
  A New Statistical Method for Haplotype Reconstruction from Population Data by Stephens, M., Smith, N.J. and Donnelly, P. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 68: 978-989, 2001. PDF version (280 K).
  
  
• Tuesday, March 5: Cancelled
  
  
• Tuesday, March 12: Soledad Fernandez
  Estimation of Conditional Multilocus Gene Identity Among Relatives by Thompson, E.A. and Heath, S.C. Statistics in Molecular Biology, IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series 33: 95-113, 1999. PS file of Tech Report version (573K).