ASHG 2015 Talks and Posters

2015 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 6-10, 2015, in Baltimore, MD.

 

Alkes Price. “Fully powered polygenic prediction using summary statistics.” Invited talk. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 11:00am. Room 316, Level 3.

 

Sasha Gusev. “Large-scale transcriptome-wide association study identifies new risk genes for obesity-related traits.” Platform talk #11. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 2:30pm. Ballroom III, Level 4.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Award (top 6 of >3,000 abstracts).

 

Po-Ru Loh. “Contrasting regional architectures of schizophrenia and other complex diseases using fast variance components analysis.” Platform talk #38. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 3:15pm. Room 316, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

 

Gaurav Bhatia. “Haplotypes of common SNPs explain a large fraction of the missing heritability of complex traits.” Platform talk #196. Friday, Oct. 9th, 2:30pm. Ballroom I, Level 4.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

 

Kevin Galinsky. “Population differentiation analysis of 54,734 European Americans reveals independent evolution of ADH1B gene in Europe and East Asia.” Platform talk #352. Saturday, Oct. 10th, 10:45am.  Room 309, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

 

Tris Hayeck. “Mixed Model Association with Family-Biased Case-Control Ascertainment.” Platform talk #346. Saturday, Oct. 10th, 11:15am. Room 307, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

 

Pier Palamara. “Leveraging distant relatedness to quantify human mutation and gene conversion rates.” Platform talk #354. Saturday, Oct. 10th, 11:15am. Room 309, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

 

Hilary Finucane. “Finding and characterizing latent genetic sub-structure for imprecisely defined phenotypes.” Poster #1365W. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 5:00-6:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Level 1.

 

Luke O’Connor. “Estimating Components of Disease Heritability Explained by Gene Expression.” Poster #1867W. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 5:00-6:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Level 1.
*This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice (top 10% of poster abstracts).

 

Xuanyao Liu. “Functional partitioning of local and distal gene expression regulation in multiple human tissues.” Poster #3179F. Friday, Oct. 9th, 10:45-11:45am. Exhibit Hall, Level 1.

 

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