JSM Activity #288

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Activity ID:  288
Title Room
* ! Statistical Genetics H-Clayton
Date / Time Sponsor Type
08/08/2001    2:00 PM  -  3:50 PM IMS Invited
Organizer: Terence Speed, University of California
Chair: Terence Speed, University of California
Discussant: 3:35 PM - Hongyu Zhao, University of California, Berkeley    
Description

This session will discuss research aimed at the mapping of genes contributing to complex traits such as diabetes and coronary heart disease. Novel statistical methods are required in order to map such genes, and the three talks at this session concern different lines of research towards this end.
  300418  By:  Sharon Browning 2:05 PM 08/08/2001
Inferring Relationships Between Multiple Individuals

  300129  By:  Jian Huang 2:35 PM 08/08/2001
Detecting Linkage Adaptive to Linkage Disequilibrium

  300130  By:  Mary Sara McPeek 3:05 PM 08/08/2001
A Statistical Method for Identification of a Trait-Associated Polymorphism in a Gene

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