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668 *	Thu, 8/2/2012, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-Room 26A
Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Feng Dai, Yale University
10:35 AM	Comparison of Somatic Mutation-Calling Methods Based on DNA Sequence from Matched Tumor-Normal Pairs — Su Yeon Kim, University of California at Berkeley ; Terry Speed, University of California at Berkeley
10:50 AM	Bump Hunting to Identify Differentially Methylated Regions in Epigenetic Epidemiology Studies — Andrew Jaffe, The Lieber Institute
11:05 AM	DNA Methylation in Blood Is Associated with Breast Cancer: A Study in Prospective Samples from the Sister Study — Zongli Xu, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Sophia C.E. Bolick, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Lisa A. DeRoo, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Dale P. Sandler, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Clarice Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Jack A. Taylor, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
11:20 AM	Correcting for Residual Population Substructure in Family-Based Tests of Gene-Environment Interactions with Application to Gene-Virus Interactions in Non-Diabetic Nephropathy — Jasmin Divers, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Barry I Freedman, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Carl D Langefeld, Wake Forest School of Medicine
11:35 AM	An Advanced Statistical Method of Multiple Sequence Alignment — Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Jahangirnagar University ; Md Shamsuddin, King Abdulaziz University
11:50 AM	Algorithm Development for Detection of Low-Prevalence Mutations Through Ultra-Deep Targeted Sequencing — Lei Bao, University of California at San Diego ; Karen Messer, University of California at San Diego
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

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