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134 Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 204
Recent Development in Methods for Statistical Genetics — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Chair(s): Nathan Sandholtz, Simon Fraser University
8:35 AM Pleiotropic Effects of Genetic Variants on Aging Traits and Lifespan: Applications of Stochastic Process Models

Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University; Olivia Bagley, Duke University; Fang Fang , Duke University; Hongzhe Duan, Duke University; Ilya Zhbannikov, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Alexander Kulminski, Duke University; Svetlana Ukraintseva, Duke University; Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University
8:50 AM Sampling Partial Genealogies Using Sequential Importance Sampling

Dongmeng Liu; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
9:05 AM Large Scale Application of Mendelian Randomization for Systematic Causal Inferences Using GWAS Summary Statistics for Drug Discovery and Development
Xing Chen, Pfizer Inc WRD
9:20 AM Comparison of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Methods for Survey Data

John Pleis, National Center for Health Statistics; Donald Malec, National Center for Health Statistics; Rong Wei, National Center for Health Statistics; Vladislav Beresovsky, National Center for Health Statistics; Bill Cai, CDC/NCHS; Te-Ching Chen, CDC/NCHS; Yulei He, CDC/NCHS; Peter Meyer, National Center for Health Statistics; Lyna Schieber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Hee-Choon Shin, CDC/NCHS; Ajay Yesupriya, State University of New York at Albany; Guangyu Zhang, National Center for Health Statistics
9:35 AM A Multi-Dimensional Integrative Scoring Framework for Predicting Functional Regions in the Human Genome

Xihao Li, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Godwin Yung, Takeda Pharmaceutical; Hufeng Zhou, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Columbia University; Xihong Lin, Harvard University
9:50 AM Two-Way Sparsity for Time-Varying Networks, with Applications in Genomics
Thomas Bartlett, University College London; Ricardo Silva, University College London; Ioannis Kosmidis, University of Warwick
10:05 AM Empirical Bayes Estimation of Gene Expression Fold Change

Abbas Rahal, University of Ottawa; Marta Padila, University of Ottawa; David R. Bickel, University of Ottawa