2016 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
October 18-22, 2016, in Vancouver, Canada
ASHG Talks
Hilary Finucane. “Extracting biological insight from heritability analysis.” Invited talk. Wednesday, October 19th, 12:00pm. West Building Room 211.
Sasha Gusev. “Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights.” Platform talk. Thursday, October 20th, 10:15am. West Building Room 302.
Kevin Galinsky. “Population structure of UK Biobank and ancient Eurasians reveals adaptation at genes influencing blood pressure.” Platform talk. Friday, October 21st, 9:30am. West Building Room 109.
*This presentation was selected for a 2016 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Award (top 6 of >3,000 abstracts).
ASHG Posters
Xuanyao Liu. “Dissecting the functional architecture of local and distal gene expression regulation in multiple human tissues.” Poster talk #2148F. Tuesday, October 18th, 7:00-9:00pm, West Building Room 119.
Carla Marquez Luna. “Multi-ethnic polygenic risk scores improve risk prediction in diverse populations.” Poster #589W. Wednesday, October 19th, 2:00-3:00pm.
Yakir Reshef. “Quantifying directional effects of transcription factor binding on polygenic disease risk using GWAS summary statistics.” Poster #376W. Wednesday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm.
Gaurav Bhatia. “Correcting subtle stratification in summary association statistics.” Poster #545T. Thursday, October 20th, 2:00-3:00pm.
Pier Palamara. “Leveraging deep genealogical structure to estimate the phenotypic contribution of rare variants.” Poster #1931T. Thursday, October 20th, 2:00-3:00pm.
*This work was also presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2016
Armin Schoech. “Estimating the frequency dependence of SNP effect sizes in human complex traits.” Poster #518T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.
Hilary Finucane. “Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types.” Poster #1628T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.
*This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Luke O’Connor. “Steady-state gene expression explains 5-15% of heritability for many complex traits.” Poster #1634T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.
Bryce van de Geijn. “Genetic variants underlying histone modifications explain a large fraction of autoimmune disease heritability.” Poster #1994T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.
Po-Ru Loh. “Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel.” Poster #564F. Friday, October 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.
Steven Gazal. “LD-dependent architecture of human complex traits reveals action of negative selection.” Poster #1644F. Friday, October 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.
*This work was also presented as a platform talk at GCD 2016
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