Polygenic risk models

Sun, Aug 6, 4:00 PM

Lorin Towle-MillerChair

Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics

6 Presentations

Asymptotic Inference in Genetic Association Studies Using Genetic Correlation of Glycemic Traits

4:05 PM - 4:20 PM

Madhav Sankaranarayanan

Co-authors: Rajarshi Mukherjee, Tamar Sofer (Brigham and Women's Hospital)

Polygenic Risk Predication via Bayesian Bridge Prior

4:20 PM - 4:35 PM

Yuzheng Dun

Co-authors: Jin Jin (Johns Hopkins University), Akihiko Nishimura (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Nilanjan Chatterjee

ALL-Sum: aggregated best subset selection using summary statistics for polygenic risk prediction

4:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Tony Chen

Co-authors: Haoyu Zhang (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Rahul Mazumder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Xihong Lin (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Polygenic hazard score models for the prediction of Alzheimer's free survival

4:50 PM - 5:05 PM

Georg Hahn

Co-authors: Christoph Lange

Improving Phenotype Prediction from Summary Data by Learning Patterns of Sharing across Phenotypes

5:05 PM - 5:20 PM

Deborah Kunkel (Clemson University)

Co-authors: Fabio Morgante (Clemson University)

Boosting Pre-Trained Polygenic Risk Score with Adaptively Transformed Genetic Predictors

5:20 PM - 5:35 PM

Wanling Xie (Cedars Sinai)

Co-authors: Yong Chen (University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine), Rui Duan, William La Cava (Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Ruowang Li (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)

Session participants

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

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