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133 Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 205
Gene-Set Based Analysis in Genomic Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Chair(s): Cristian Oliva, Colorado State University
8:35 AM Integration of Multiple 'Omic Data Types for Screening Disease-Related Gene Sets with Applications in Lung Cancer

Su Hee Chu, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Yen-Tsung Huang, Academia Sinica
8:50 AM Evaluating Statistical Classifiers for Detecting C9orf72 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Based on Whole Blood RNAseq Data

Wenting Wang, Biogen; Guolin Zhao, Biogen; Feng Gao, Biogen; Tzu-Ying Liu, University of Michigan; Ayla Ergun, Biogen; Jessica Hurt, Biogen
9:05 AM Building a Genomic Signature via Transfer Learning on Both Labelled and Unlabelled High-Dimensional Data: a Case Study in Predicting Prostate Cancer Metastasis
Yang Liu, GenomeDx Biosciences; Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi, Simon Fraser University; Nicholas Erho, GenomeDX Biosciences; Raunak Shrestha, Vancouver Prostate Centre; Mohammed Alshalalfa, GenomeDX Biosciences; Elai Davicioni, GenomeDX Biosciences; Colin Collins, Vancouver Prostate Centre; Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University
9:20 AM Biclustering Algorithm for Biomedical Literature Mining Guided by Prior Information

Jin Hyun Nam; Zhenning Yu, Medical University of South Carolina; Daniel Couch, Medical University of South Carolina; Andrew B Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina ; Dongjun Chung, Medical University of South Carolina
9:35 AM Outer Node FDR Control for Gene Ontology and Other Directed Acyclic Graphs

Eugene Katsevich, Stanford University; Chiara Sabatti, Stanford University; Marina Bogomolov, Technion
9:50 AM Robust Inference Based on Linear Mixed Models with Application to Gene Detections
Youngseok Song, Colorado State University; Wen Zhou, Colorado State University; Kim Hoke, Colorado State University; Wenxin Zhou, University of California, San Diego
10:05 AM Resampling-Based Control of the False Discovery Rate Incorporating Shrinkage Estimation for the Covariance Matrix
Josephine Sarpong Akosa, Oklahoma State University; Melinda McCann, Oklahoma State University