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Legend: Washington State Convention Center = CC, Sheraton Seattle = S, Grand Hyatt = GH and The Conference Center = TCC
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540 * ! Wed, 8/12/2015, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-620
SIE CP8: Genetic Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biometrics Section
Chair(s): Michael P. Jones, The University of Iowa
10:35 AM Detection of Shared Genetic Variants Between Complex Diseases While Preserving LD Structure — Julie Kobie, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine ; Sihai Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Yun R. Li, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ; Hakon Hakonarson, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
10:50 AM Extending Concepts of Gene-Environment Interaction Testing to a DNA Methylation Framework — Emily Slade, Harvard School of Public Health ; Peter Kraft, Harvard School of Public Health
11:05 AM Rare-Variant Kernel Machine Test for Longitudinal Data for Population and Family Samples — Qi Yan ; Wei Chen, University of Pittsburgh Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ; Nianjun Liu, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
11:20 AM Detection of Differentially Methylated Regions Using Kernel Distance and Scan Statistics — Fengjiao Hu, Georgia Regents University ; Hongyan Xu, Georgia Regents University ; Varghese George, Georgia Regents University
11:35 AM Testing for Gene-Environment Interactions Under Environment Misspecification — Ryan Sun, Harvard University ; Xihong Lin, Harvard School of Public Health
11:50 AM From GWAS to Possible Therapeutic: The Story of a Prevalent Neurodegenerative Disease — David Fardo, University of Kentucky ; Pete Nelson, University of Kentucky
12:05 PM PCA-Seq: Inferring Population Structure with Rare Variants from Sequencing Data — Jennifer Kirk, University of Washington ; Timothy Thornton, University of Washington




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