GWAS and Beyond

Tue, Aug 8, 10:30 AM

Jingning ZhangChair

Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics

7 Presentations

IEB: Iterative Empirical Bayes for High Recall and Precision in GWAS Analysis

10:35 AM - 10:50 AM

Jacob Williams

Co-authors: Shuangshuang Xu (Virginia Tech), Marco Ferreira (Virginia Tech)

MultiSTAAR: A statistical framework for powerful rare variant multi-trait analysis

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Xihao Li

Co-authors: Han Chen (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), Jerome Rotter (The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center), Gina Peloso, Pradeep Natarajan (Massachusetts General Hospital), Zilin Li (Indiana University School of Medicine), Zhonghua Liu (Columbia University), Xihong Lin (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Multi-GPA-Tree: Pleiotropy Informed & Functional Annotation Guided Prioritization of GWAS Results

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Aastha Khatiwada (National Jewish Health)

Co-authors: Dongjun Chung (The Ohio State University), Bethany Wolf (Medical University of South Carolina), Ayse Selen Yilmaz (The Ohio State University), Maciej Pietrzak (The Ohio State University)

Genetic risk prediction via summary-statistic-based multi-task learning

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Parker Knight

Co-authors: Rui Duan

Splicing transcriptome-wide association study identifies new candidate genes for Alzheimer's disease

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Guimin Gao (The University of Chicago)

Co-authors: Julian McClellan (University of Chicago), Mark Nie (University of Chicago), Hae Kyung Im (The University of Chicago)

CAPG: The Comprehensive Allopolyploid Genotyper

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Karin Dorman (Iowa State University)

Co-authors: Roshan Kulkarni (Iowa State University), Yudi Zhang, Steven B. Cannon (USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit)

Ensemble methods for testing a global null

12:05 PM - 12:20 PM

Yaowu Liu

Co-authors: Zhonghua Liu (Columbia University), Xihong Lin (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Session participants

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

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