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Activity Number: 488
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Thursday, August 10, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Abstract - #305007
Title: Bayesian Modeling of Complex Traits
Author(s): Paola Sebastiani*+
Companies: Boston University
Address: Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA, 02118,
Keywords: Bayesian networks ; complex traits ; gene-environment
Abstract:

The advances in genotyping technology are producing massive amounts of genetic and genomic data that, together with information collected in large epidemiology studies, hold the promise of discovering the genetic basis of many common diseases. This talk will describe recent Bayesian models that have been used to discover the genetic basis of some complex traits and to develop prognostic models that can identify subjects with higher susceptibility to disease. Issues covered will include how to deal with missing data, how to model the complex web of interaction between genetic and epidemiology variables with relatively small sample sizes using Bayesian networks, and how to define phenotype from data precisely.

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