Methods and applications of statistical genomics in basic and biopharmaceutical research

Sun, Aug 6, 2:00 PM

Lin LiChair

Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics

5 Presentations

A Mixed-Model Method for Integrating Functional Annotations into Genomic Prediction in Farm Animals

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM

Jicai Jiang (North Carolina State University)

Co-authors: Li Ma (University of Maryland), Paul VanRaden (Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, ARS, USDA), Jeffrey O'Connell (University of Maryland School of Medicine)

A multi-trait analysis method for genome-wide association studies using summary statistics

2:25 PM - 2:45 PM

Shili Lin (The Ohio State University)

Co-authors: Qiaolan Deng, Chi Song

Applying polygenic risk scores to pharmacogenomic studies: challenges and opportunities

2:45 PM - 3:05 PM

Judong Shen (Merck & Co., Inc.)

Co-authors: Song Zhai

Assessing the performance of various risk-scoring approaches

3:05 PM - 3:25 PM

Jing Qian

Co-authors: Yared Gurmu (Food and Drug Administration)

The construction of cross-population polygenic risk scores using transfer learning

3:25 PM - 3:45 PM

Seunggeun Lee (Seoul National University)