2014 ASHG Talks and Posters

2014 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 18-22, 2014, in San Diego, CA.

 

Kevin Galinsky.  “Fast PCA of very large samples in linear time.”  Platform talk #156.  Monday Oct. 20th, 12:00pm.  Room 29, Upper Level.

 

Po-Ru Loh.  “Efficient Bayesian mixed model analysis increases association power in large cohorts.”  Platform talk #200.  Monday Oct. 20th, 5:00pm.  Room 20A, Upper Level.
*This presentation was selected for a 2014 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

 

Amit Joshi.  “GWAS meta-analysis of ten studies identifies five novel loci associated with gallstone disease in European ancestry individuals.”  Platform talk #271.  Tuesday Oct. 21st, 10:30am.  Room 6DE, Upper Level.

 

Hilary Finucane.  “Partitioning heritability by functional category using summary statistics.”  Platform talk #351.  Tuesday Oct. 21st, 4:30pm.  Room 6DE, Upper Level.
*This work will also be presented as a platform talk at GCD 2014 on Sept. 19th.

 

Alkes Price.  “Heritability of functional variant classes in schizophrenia and other traits: regulatory elements explain more heritability than coding variants.”  Invited talk.  Wednesday Oct. 22nd, 9:30am.  Room 20BC, Upper Level.

 

Gaurav Bhatia.  “Haplotypes explain additional heritability of complex traits.”  Poster #937S.  Sunday, Oct. 19th, 4:00-5:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Bjarni Vilhjalmsson.  “Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores.”  Poster #1767S.  Sunday, Oct. 19th, 4:00-5:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
*This work will also be presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2014 on Oct. 15th.

 

Tris Hayeck.  “Mixed model with correction for case-control ascertainment increases power in multiple sclerosis association study.”  Poster #1746S.  Sunday, Oct. 19th, 5:00-6:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Chi Gao.  Poster #1103M.  Monday, Oct. 20th, 2:00-3:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Richard Barfield.  Poster #1768M.  Monday, Oct. 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Pier Palamara, with former PhD mentor Itsik Pe’er.  “Inference of mutation rates using hidden relatedness.”  Poster #1956M.  Monday, Oct. 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Xin Li.  Poster #663T.  Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 2:00-3:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Hugues Aschard.  “Adjusting for heritable covariates can bias effect estimates in genome-wide association studies.”  Poster #966T.  Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.

 

Sasha Gusev.  “Regulatory variants explain much more heritability than coding variants across 11 common diseases.”  Poster #936T.  Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
*This work was also presented as a platform talk at Biology of Genomes 2014 on May 8th.

 

Sara Lindstroem.  “A comprehensive survey of genetic variation in 20,769 subjects from the Harvard Cohorts.”  Poster #1796T.  Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.  Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.