Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Winter 2010

Time: Wednesdays 1:30-2:18pm
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Wednesday, January 27:
  Cenny Taslim (Dept of Stat)
  Modeling ChIP Sequencing In Silico with Applications
  Zhang Z. D., Rozowsky J., Snyder M., Chang J., Gerstein M.
  PLoS Computational Biology 4(8): e1000158
  
  
• Wednesday, February 3:
  Erik Bloomquist (MBI)
  Robust classification in high dimensions based on the SIMCA Method
  K. Vanden Branden, M. Hubert
  Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 79: 10-21 (2005)
  Related Reading: Robust PCA for skewed data and its outlier map
  Background: ROBPCA: A New Approach to Robust Principal Component Analysis
  
  
• Wednesday, February 10:
  Jingyuan Yang (Dept of Stat)
  Quantitative Trait Association in Parent Offspring Trios: Extension of Case/Pseudocontrol Method and Comparison of Prospective and Retrospective Approaches
  Eleanor Wheeler and Heather J. Cordell
  Genetic Epidemiology 31: 813–833 (2007)
  
  
• Wednesday, February 17:
  Katie Thompson (Dept of Stat)
  MOST: detecting cancer differential gene expression
  Heng Lian
  Biostatistics 9(3): 411-418 (2008)
  
  
• Wednesday, February 24:
  Prof. Shili Lin (Dept of Stat)
  A Test for Partial Differential Expression
  Wessel N. van Wieringen, Mark A. van de Wiel, and Aad W. van der Vaart
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 103(483): 1039-1049 (2008)
  
  
• Wednesday, March 3:
  Lynn Friedman (Dept of Stat)
  Gene Expression Meta-Analysis Identifies Metastatic Pathways and Transcription Factors in Breast Cancer
  Mads Thomassen, Qihua Tan and Torben A. Kruse
  BMC Cancer 8:394 (2008)
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