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618 ! Thu, 8/7/2014, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-208
Inventive Statistical Methods for Genetic Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Umut Ozbek, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   
8:35 AM Measuring Correlation of Evolution Rates Across Multiple Loci: Inference from Large-Scale Sequencing for Infectious Disease Surveillance Max Tolkoff, University of California, Los Angeles ; Marc Suchard , University of California, Los Angeles
8:50 AM Test for Rare Variants by Environment Interactions Xinyi Lin, Harvard School of Public Health ; Seunggeun Lee, University of Michigan ; Michael Wu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Chaolong Wang, Harvard School of Public Health ; Han Chen, Harvard School of Public Health ; Zilin Li, Harvard ; Xihong Lin, Harvard School of Public Health
9:05 AM Statistical Methods for Heritability Estimation and Genetic Risk Prediction with Application to Addiction Phenotypes Yue-Ming Chen ; Peng Wei, University of Texas School of Public Health
9:20 AM Diffusion Models for Phylogenetic Trait Evolution Mandev Gill, University of California, Los Angeles ; Marc Suchard , University of California, Los Angeles
9:35 AM Powerful Haplotype Testing by Means of Hierarchical Linkage Disequilibrium in Genetic Association Studies Stefan Boehringer, Leiden University Medical Center ; Brunilda Balliu, Leiden University Medical Center
9:50 AM Fitting Multi-Type Branching Process Models to Panel Data Jason Xu ; Vladimir Minin, University of Washington ; Peter Guttorp, University of Washington
10:05 AM Set-Based Gene-Environment Interaction Tests with Adaptive Filtering Qianying Liu, University of Chicago ; Lin Chen, University of Chicago ; Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago



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