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17 * Sun, 7/29/2012, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Room 26B
Advances in the Analysis of Rare Variants from Next-Generation Sequencing Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Indian Statistical Association , Statistics Surveys Online Journal
Organizer(s): Marinela Capanu, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Chair(s): Marinela Capanu, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2:05 PM Powerful and Versatile Tests for Disease Association with Rare Variants Wei Pan, University of Minnesota
2:25 PM Assessment of Rare Variants of Unknown Significance Using Hierarchical Modeling Colin B Begg, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ; Marinela Capanu, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2:45 PM Informative Variable Selection for Rare Variant Association Studies Melanie Quintana, University of Southern California ; David V Conti, University of Southern California
3:05 PM Developing Strategies for Follow-Up of Rare Variants in Genome-Wide Association Studies Arpita Ghosh, National Cancer Institute ; Joshua Sampson, National Cancer Institute ; Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute
3:25 PM Discussant: David V Conti, University of Southern California
3:45 PM Floor Discussion



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