Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics -- JSM 2026

30: A Non-Parametric Method for Clustering Longitudinal Joint Pattern Multi-Genetic/epigenetic Data.

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Joseph Handwerker (St Jude Children's Research Hospital)

Co-authors: Meredith Ray (University Of Memphis)

Longitudinal Clustering Vector in Partition Genetics Inheritance

31: Association Analysis Between Alcohol Consumption, Transcriptome Isoform Ratios, and CVD

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Yuanming Leng (Boston University)

Co-authors: Roby Joehanes (Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institution), Jeffrey Haessle (Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health), Charles Kooperberg (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center), Daniel Levy (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)), Jiantao Ma (Tufts University), Chunyu Liu (Boston University)

Alcohol Consumption RNA Sequencing Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

32: BigRiver: A Julia Ecosystem for Omics and Complex Trait Analysis

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Gregory Farage (University of Tennessee Health Science Center)

Co-authors: Jane Liang, Abhirath Anand (University of Michigan Medical School), Durbadal Ghosh, Chenhao Zhao, Zifan Yu, Saunak Sen (University of Tennessee Health Science Center)

Julia programming language metabolomics genomics complex trait QTL mapping

33: Coalescent Inference for Pathogens with Latent Periods

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Isaac Goldstein (University of California, Irvine)

Co-authors: Julia Palacios (Stanford University)

Coalescent Models Effective Reproduction Number Phylogenetics Compartmental Models

34: Confounder-robust Causal Discovery and Inference in Perturb-seq Using Proxy and Instrumental Variables

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Kwangmoon Park (University of Pennsylvania)

35: Copy Number Variation and Tumor Subclone Analysis for High-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomics

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Chenxuan Zang (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Co-authors: Ziyi Li (MD Anderson Cancer Center), Peng Wei (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Spatial Transcriptomics Tumor Heterogeneity Tumor Subclone Copy Number Variation

36: Examining Genomic Control Adjustment Methods for Joint Gene-Environment Interaction Test

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Francesca Zumpano (Boston University School of Public Health)

Co-authors: Gina Peloso (Boston University School of Public Health), Kathryn Lunetta (Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics), Ching-Ti Liu (Boston University School of Public Health)

statistical genetics gene-environment interaction genomic control

37: Exploring Metabolic Reprogramming in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Using Metabolic Pathway Analysis

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Shivam Chawla

Co-authors: Soyoung Jeon (New Mexico State University), Lucas Sullivan (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center)

Clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC)Transcriptomics Metabolic Pathway Analysis LIMMA-Trend Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA)Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

38: HetPert: Modeling Heterogeneous Perturbation Effects in Single-Cell Perturb-seq Data

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Xintong Zhai (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Co-authors: Dylan Cable (University of Michigan)

Perturb-seq Heterogeneous perturbation effects Latent variable modeling scRNA-seq

39: High-Dimensional Mediation Analysis for Generalized Linear Models

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Jing Zhang

Co-authors: Qi Zhang (University of Nebraska Lincoln)

mediation analysis high-dimensional debiased LASSO Generalized Linear Model

40: LASSO–Based High Dimensional Mediation Analysis for Genetic Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Malith Perera (University of New Hampshire)

Co-authors: Qi Zhang

High Dimensional Mediation Analysis Alzheimer's Disease Adaptive LASSO Debiased LASSO Integrative Omics

41: MV-DeLIVR: Deep Learning Based Multivariable IV Regression for Nonlinear Causal Inference

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Ruoyu He

Neural network Identifiability Invalid IV Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS)Two-stage least squares (2SLS)

42: Pixel2Gene Enables Histology-guided Reconstruction and Prediction of Spatial Gene Expression

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Sicong Yao (University of Pennsylvania)

43: Probabilistic Mosaic Integration of Single-Cell Multi-Omics Data with Paired-Guided Imputation

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Rong Pan (University of Maryland, College Park)

single-cell multi-omics mosaic integration deep learning variational autoencoder missing data imputation

44: Real-time RNA-seq eQTL Scans Using Linear Mixed Models

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Zifan Yu

Co-authors: Saunak Sen (University of Tennessee Health Science Center), Gregory Farage (University of Tennessee Health Science Center), Karl Broman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Hyo Young Choi (UTHSC), John McKay (Colorado State University), Jack Mullen (Colorado State University)

Linear mixed models expression-QTL RNA-seq High-throughput association testing Matrix-based acceleration Computational genomics

45: Robust Inference with Generative AI-Based Synthetic Data in Genome-Wide Association Studies

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Ahmad Abdel-Azim (Harvard University)

Co-authors: Ruoyu Wang (Harvard University), Xihong Lin (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Synthetic data Genetics Double sampling Generative AI Diffusion

46: Robust Transfer Learning for High-Dimensional Covariance Estimation

10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Xieheng Wang

Co-authors: Aaron Molstad (University of Minnesota), Karl Oskar Ekvall (Karolinska Institute)

transfer learning covariance estimation high-dimensional statistics regularization

47: Scan Statistics for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes with Bias-Corrected Transformation and Generalized Extreme-Value Calibration for CNV Detection