JSM 2011 Online Program

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588 Wed, 8/3/2011, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-D239
Recent Advances in Genome-Wide Association Studies — Contributed Papers
Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biometrics Section , WNAR
Chair(s): Ruth Pfeiffer, National Cancer Institute
2:05 PM Combining Admixture Mapping and Association Test to Improve the Power of Genome-Wide Association Studies Jasmin Divers, Wake Forest University ; Nicholas M. Pajewski, Wake Forest University ; David Redden, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Raymond James Carroll, Texas A & M University ; David B. Allison, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Carl D. Langefeld, Wake Forest University
2:20 PM Regression-Based Multi-Marker Tests for Gene-Based Analysis of Genetic Association Yun Joo Yoo, Seoul National University ; Shelley B. Bull, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute ; Lei Sun, University of Toronto
2:35 PM A New Class of Test Statistics for Detecting Rare Disease-Associated Genetic Variants John Ferguson, Yale University ; Hongyu Zhao, Yale University ; Judy H. Cho, Yale University ; Joshua Sampson, National Cancer Institute
2:50 PM A Hidden Markov Model for Haplotype Inference for Present-Absent Genotype Data Using Previously Identified Haplotype and Haplotype Patterns — Jihua Wu, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Guo-Bo Chen, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Degui Zhi, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Nianjun Liu, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Kui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham
3:05 PM Multi-Layer Clustering and Its Applications: Local Ancestry Inference and Haplotype-Based Association Mapping Yongtao Guan, Baylor College of Medicine
3:20 PM Multi-Marker Test For Genetic Association Lingzhi Li, University of Minnesota ; Weihua Guan, University of Minnesota
3:35 PM Power Gains Using Phenotyped but Ungenotyped Relatives in Genetic Association Studies of Dichotomous Traits Wei Vivian Zhuang, Boston University ; Joanne M. Murabito, Framingham Heart Study ; Kathryn Lunetta, Boston University



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