ASHG and IGES Talks & Posters

Several PMAGE members have been selected to present their work at two of the largest genetics conferences of the year.  The 21st Annual IGES Conference will take place from October 18-20th in Stevenson, Washington.  This year’s ASHG Meeting will follow soon afterwards in San Francisco, from November 6-10th.

 

21st Annual IGES Conference

Stevenson, Washington, Oct. 18-20th, 2012

 

Laura Faye: Re-Ranking Next Generation Sequencing Variants for Accurate Causal Variant Identification
Platform presentation #8.
*This presentation has been nominated for a Williams Award

Hugues Aschard: Relaxing the genetic model to identify quantitative trait loci having heterogeneous effects
Platform presentation #22.

Sara Lindstrom: Deep targeted sequencing of 12 breast cancer loci in 4,700 women across four different ethnicities
Poster presentation #44.

Noah Zaitlen: Informed conditioning on clinical covariates increases power in case-control association studies
Poster presentation #88.

Amit Joshi: A comparison of approaches for genome-wide gene-environment interaction analyses in the risk of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer
Poster presentation #137.

Bogdan Pasaniuc: Fast and accurate 1000 Genomes imputation using summary statistics or low-coverage sequencing data
Poster presentation #158.

Linda Hiraki: Building and assessing protein-protein interaction networks from genome wide association results in cancer
Poster presentation #178.

 

 

2012 ASHG Meeting

San Francisco, California, Nov. 6-10th, 2012

 

Bogdan Pasaniuc.  Fast and accurate 1000 Genomes imputation using summary statistics or low-coverage sequencing data.  Talk #89, Thursday Nov. 8th, 10:45 am, Hall D, Lower Level North.  In Session #29, “Next-generation Sequencing: Methods and Applications.”
*This presentation has been selected for a Charles J. Epstein Trainee Semifinalist Award.

Linda Hiraki.  Building and assessing protein-protein interaction networks from genome wide association results in cancer.  Talk #191, Thursday Nov. 8th, 5:30 pm, Room 135, Lower Level North.  In Session #40, “Analysis of Multilocus Systems.”

Hugues Aschard.  Decrease prediction ability of common genetic variants on breast cancer risk with age: Possible underlying models and impact on risk prediction.  Talk #318, Friday Nov. 9th, 9:15 am, Room 130, Lower Level North.  In Session #54, “Genetic Counseling and Clinical Testing.”

Noah Zaitlen. Leveraging admixture analysis to resolve missing and cross-population heritability in GWAS. Talk #350, Friday Nov. 9th, 4:45 pm, Room 135, Lower Level North. In Session #61, “Missing Heritability, Interactions, and Sequencing.”

Peter Kraft.  Deep targeted sequencing of 12 breast cancer loci in 4,700 women across four different ethnicities.  Talk #356, Friday Nov. 9th, 6:15 pm, Room 135, Lower Level North.  In Session #61, “Missing Heritability, Interactions and Sequencing.”

Bjarni Vilhjalmsson.  Bayesian polygenic prediction of myocardial infarction risk.  In “Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology”, Poster #1331W, Wednesday Nov. 7th, 2:15-3:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Zhonghua Liu. Genome-wide association study on the variation of quantitative trait as a tool to identify important genetic variants for related complex diseases: An example of CHD risk in T2D patients.  In “Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology”/ Poster #1357F, Friday Nov. 9th, 2:15-3:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Gaurav Bhatia. Estimating and Interpreting Fst: The Impact of Rare Variants. In “Evolutionary and Population Genetics”, Poster #3407W, Wednesday Nov. 7th, 2:15-3:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Chia-yen Chen.  Inference of genetic ancestry using genotype data from a single individual.  In “Evolutionary and Population Genetics”, Poster #3413W, Wednesday Nov. 7th, 2:15-3:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Baoshan Ma.  Statistical Models to Predict DNA Methylation Level Across Different Tissues in Humans.  In “Epigenetics”, Poster #3469T, Thursday Nov. 8th, 2:15-3:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Sasha Gusev.  Robust partitioning of local heritability at associated GWAS loci.  In “Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology”, Poster #1577W, Wednesday Nov. 7th, 2:15-3:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Alkes Price.  Enabling mixed model association analysis for large case-control studies.  In “Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology”, Poster #1360F, Friday Nov. 9th, 3:15-4:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.

Xuefeng Wang.  Prediction of Total Serum IgE Using Genome-wide Methylation Profile.  In “Epigenetics”, Poster #3486T, Thursday Nov. 8th, 3:15-4:15 pm, Moscone Center, Exhibit Halls ABC.