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Keyword Search Criteria: Genetics returned 44 record(s)
Sunday, 07/29/2018
Inference of Introgressive Hybridization in Anopheles Mosquito Genomes
Jingxue(Grace) Feng, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University


A Nearly Optimal Sequential Testing Approach to Permutation-Based Association Testing
Julian Hecker, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Ingo Ruczinski, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Christoph Lange, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


On Using Gene Genealogies to Find Trait-Influencing Variants
Payman Nickchi, Simon Fraser University; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University


On Using Gene Genealogies to Find Trait-Influencing Variants
Payman Nickchi, Simon Fraser University; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
2:10 PM

Literature-Guided Integration of Multiple GWAS Results Using Graph-GPA and DDNet
Dongjun Chung, Medical University of South Carolina; Hang J. Kim, University of Cincinnati; Zhenning Yu, Medical University of South Carolina; Andrew B Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina ; Hongyu Zhao, Yale
2:20 PM

Genetic Analysis of High-Dimensional Phenotypes
Michael Philip Epstein, Emory University
2:25 PM

Bayesian Inference for Phylogenetic Trees and Networks
Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, University of British Columbia
2:45 PM

A Nearly Optimal Sequential Testing Approach to Permutation-Based Association Testing
Julian Hecker, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Ingo Ruczinski, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Christoph Lange, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:50 PM

Data Adaptive Evaluation of Preprocessing Methods Using Ensemble Machine Learning
Rachael Phillips, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
4:05 PM

De Novo Detection and Accurate Inference of Differentially Methylated Regions
Keegan Korthauer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Sutirtha Chakraborty, Novartis; Yuval Benjamini, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University
4:20 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018
Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference via Particle Gibbs Sampler with Ancestor Sampling
Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University


Identifying Epigenetic Regions Exhibiting Critical Windows of Susceptibility to Air Pollution
Michele Zemplenyi, Harvard University; Mark J Meyer, Georgetown University; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health


Integration of Multiple 'Omic Data Types for Screening Disease-Related Gene Sets with Applications in Lung Cancer
Su Hee Chu, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Yen-Tsung Huang, Academia Sinica
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
8:35 AM

Sampling Partial Genealogies Using Sequential Importance Sampling
Dongmeng Liu; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
8:50 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
9:20 AM

Statistical Inference for Neuroimaging Genetics
Long Feng, Yale University; Xuan Bi, Yale University; Heping Zhang, Yale University School of Public Health
10:35 AM

Likelihood Estimation of Large Species Trees from Multiple Samples Per Species, Using the Coalescent Process
Arindam RoyChoudhury, Cornell University
10:55 AM

A Joint Analysis of Brain Signal, Genetics, and Behavior
Zhaoxia Yu, UCI; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Dustin Pluta, University of California, Irvine; Tong Shen, University of California, Irvine
11:00 AM

Identifying Epigenetic Regions Exhibiting Critical Windows of Susceptibility to Air Pollution
Michele Zemplenyi, Harvard University; Mark J Meyer, Georgetown University; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
11:15 AM

A starless bias in the maximum likelihood phylogenetic methods
Xuhua Xia, University of Ottawa
11:15 AM

Bayesian Network Models for Integrating Genetics and Metabolomics Data
Denise Marie Scholtens, Northwestern University; Alan Kuang, Northwestern University
11:25 AM

Beyond Random-Walk MCMC for Bayesian Phylogenetics
Frederick Matsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:35 AM

Phylogenomic Inference in the Presence of Gene Flow Using Coalescent Site Pattern Probabilities
Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University; Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
11:55 AM

Distinguishing Close Linkage from Pleiotropy in Multiparental Populations
Frederick Boehm, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mark Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Alan Attie, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Brian Yandell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Karl Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:05 PM

Structure Learning for Phylogenetic Tree with Quantitative Characters
Chaoyu Yu; Mathias Drton, University of Washington
2:20 PM

Multiethnic Joint Analysis of Marginal SNP Effects
David Conti, University of Southern California; Kan Wang, University of Southern California; Chris Haiman, University of Southern California; Paul Newcombe, MRC Biostatistics Unit
3:05 PM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018
SMMAT: a Powerful and Efficient Variant Set Mixed Model Association Test for Binary and Quantitative Traits in Whole Genome Sequencing Studies with Correlated Samples
Han Chen, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
11:05 AM

Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Multivariate Processes in Phylodynamics Using Stochastic Differential Equations
James Faulkner, University of Washington; Vladimir N. Minin, University of California, Irvine
2:20 PM

Wednesday, 08/01/2018
Assessing Reproducibility in Genome Wide Association Studies
Dan McGuire, Penn State College of Medicine


Single Cell Data Mining of Live Cell Epigenetic Modifications
Chris Bryan


A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Abhay Hukku; Xiaoquan William Wen, University of Michigan; Corbin Quick, University of Michigan


Expansion of a stochastic model for assessing CT reinfection risk
Kristin Olson, University of Alabama at Birmingham; William Geisler, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Hemant Tiwari, University of Alabama at Birmingham


Neural Network with Spline Smoothing and Its Applications to Genetics
Pei Geng, Illinois State University; Shan Zhang, Michigan State University; Qing Lu, Michigan State University
10:05 AM

Inferring Non-Bifurcating Phylogenies with the Adaptive Lasso
Vu Dinh, University Of Delaware
10:55 AM

Adaptive Mantel Test for Penalized Inference, with Applications to Imaging Genetics
Dustin Pluta, University of California, Irvine; Tong Shen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Zhaoxia Yu, University of California, Irvine
10:55 AM

Markov-Modulated Continuous-Time Markov Chains to Identify Site- and Branch-Specific Evolutionary Variation
Guy Baele, KU Leuven
11:15 AM

GLMM-Seq: Detection of Population-Based Gene Level Allele-Specific Expression by RNA-Seq
Jiaxin Fan, University of Pennsylvania; Jian Hu, University of Pennsylvania; Muredach Reilly, Columbia University; Rui Xiao, University of Pennsylvania; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
11:35 AM

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Evolutionary Model Selection
Mandev Gill
11:55 AM

Genetic Correlations Between Imaging Traits and Common Diseases
Hongyu Zhao, Yale
2:05 PM

Thursday, 08/02/2018
Those Who Escaped Must Be Captured: Deconstructing Phylogenies and Transmission Trees in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Eben Kenah, The Ohio State University School of Public Health
8:55 AM

A Spatial Group Sparse Multi-Task Regression Model for Imaging Genetics
Farouk Nathoo; Yin Song, University of Victoria; Shufei Ge, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University
8:55 AM

Estimation and Comparison of Transmission Trees Using Sequence Data
Michelle Kendall, Oxford University; Caroline Colijn, Simon Fraser University
9:15 AM

Bayesian Bi-Clustering Methods with Applications to Integrative Genomics and Genetics
Jun Liu, Harvard University; Yang Li, Vatic Labs; Jiexing Wu, Google
9:25 AM