Ancestry and Genetic Associations

Mon, Aug 7, 2:00 PM

Qingrun ZhangChair

Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics

5 Presentations

Summix-local for local ancestry estimation and correction

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Hayley Wolff

Co-authors: Adelle Price, Katie Marker (University of Colorado), Christopher Gignoux (University of Colorado), Audrey Hendricks (University of Colorado Denver)

Bayesian Inference of Local Genetic Correlation

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Ming Hin Ng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Co-authors: Xiaoxuan Xia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Signal-noise ratio of genetic associations and statistical power of SNP-set tests

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Hong Zhang (Pfizer Inc.)

Co-authors: Ming Liu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Jiashun Jin (Carnegie Mellon University), Zheyang Wu (WPI)

An expression-directed linear mixed model(edLMM) discovering low-effect genetic variants

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Jiayi Bian

Co-authors: Qing Li (University of Calgary), Yanzhao Qian (University of Calgary), Pathum Kossinna (University of Calgary), Paul MK Gordon (University of Calgary), Xiang Zhou (University of Michigan), Xinyi Guo (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Jun Yan (University of Calgary), Jingjing Wu (University of Calgary), Quan Long (University of Calgary)

Fast and accurate heritability partitioning using summary statistics from association tests and sparse covariance matrices

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Hui Li (Harvard University School of Public Health)

Co-authors: Rahul Mazumder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luke O'Connor (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard), Xihong Lin (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

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Kimberly Siegmund (University of Southern California, School of Medicine)

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