2013 Mid-Atlantic Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics (MAGES) Conference

Program

10:15-10:30    Timothy Rebbeck & Harold Feldman (Penn): Welcome and opening remarks

Session 1: GWAS developments and applications (Moderator: Danish Saleheen, Penn)

10:30-11:00    Tara Matise (Rutgers): The Next PAGE:  Examples from the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology Study

11:00-11:30    Hongyu Zhao (Yale): Incorporating prior information in GWAS: how far can we go?

11:30-12:00    Nilanjan Chatterjee (NCI): Risk prediction based on hidden heritability in genome-wide association studies

12:00-1:30      Lunch

Session 2: New methods in statistical genetics (Moderator: Jinbo Chen, Penn)

1:30-2:00       Ingo Ruczinski (Johns Hopkins): Methods for genetic studies with case-parent trios

2:00-2:30       Jaya Satagopan (MSKCC): Evaluation of statistical interactions for binary traits

2:30-3:00       Kathryn Roeder (Carnegie Mellon): Estimating genetically inferred relationships using Treelets

3:00-3:30       Coffee break

Session 3: Analysis of NGS data (Moderator: Mingyao Li, Penn)

3:30-4:00       Iuliana Ionita-Laza (Columbia): Sequence-based association tests and applications

4:00-4:30       Joan Bailey-Wilson (NHGRI): Family-based strategies for analyses of next generation sequence data

4:30-5:00       Adam Naj (Penn): Filter Feeding: Principled exploratory filtering approaches for sequence data to identify variants, genes, and regions for genetic follow-up studies

5:00-5:30       Hongzhe Li (Penn): Conclusions

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