Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Winter 2012

Time: Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30pm
Place: Cockins Hall 212

• Tuesday, Januarary 10:
  Meng Wang (Dept of Stat)
  Bayesian Analysis of Rare Variants in Genetic Association Studies
  Yi, N. and Zhi, D.
  Genetic Epidemiology, 35: 57-69, 2011
  
  
• Tuesday, Januarary 17:
  Dr. Shili Lin (Dept of Stat)
  Sparse Distance-based Learning For Simultaneous Multiclass Classification And Feature Selection of Metagenomic Data
  Liu Z. et al.
  Bioinformatics 2011 27: 3242-3249.
  
  
• Tuesday Janurary 24:
  Shuang Xia (Dept of Stat)
  A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Detecting Haplotyple-Haplotype and Haplotype-Environment Interactions in Genetic Association Studies
  Li Jun et al.
  Human Heredity 2011; 71:148-160
  
  
• Tuesday Janurary 31:
  Liang Niu (Dept of Stat)
  Probabilistic Modeling of Hi-C Contact Maps Eliminates Systematic Biases to Characterize Global Chromosomal Architecture
  Eitan Yaffe and Amos Tanay
  Nature Genetics 43, 1059-1065 (2011)
  
  
• Tuesday Feburary 7:
  Cenny Taslim (Dept of Stat)
  Differential Expression in RNA-seq: A Matter of Depth
  Tarazona S. et al.
  Genome Res. 2011 21: 2213-2223
  
  
• Tuesday, Feburary 14:
  Dao-Peng Chen (Dept of Stat)
  Bias Detection and Correction in RNA-Sequencing Data
  Zheng et al.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 12:290 (2011)
  
  
• Tuesday, Feburary 21:
  No Meeting
  
  
• Tuesday Feburary 28:
  Prof. Asuman Turkmen (Dept of Stat)
  Multilocus Association Testing With Penalized Regression
  Sanoli Basu, Wei Pan
  Genetic Epidemiology 35: 755 - 765 (2011)
  
  
• Tuesday March 6:
  Dr. Lynn Friedman (Dept of Stat)
  On the Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies in Family-Based Designs: A Universal, Robust Analysis Approach and an Application to Four Genome-Wide Association Studies
  S. Won et al.
  PLoS Genet 5(11): e1000741 (2009)