2017 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
October 17-21, 2017, in Orlando, Florida
ASHG Talks
Po-Ru Loh. “An atlas of 8,342 mosaic structural variants reveals genetic drivers of clonal hematopoiesis.” Plenary Talk. Tuesday, October 17th, 5:50pm, South Hall B, Level 1. *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Award (top 6 of >3,000 abstracts).
Yakir Reshef. “Quantifying directional effects of transcription factor binding on polygenic disease risk using GWAS summary statistics.” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 18th, 11:15am, Orange County Convention Center, Room 230 C, Level 2.
Omer Weissbrod with former mentor Eran Segal. “Biome-explainability: Quantifying microbiome-phenotype associations while accounting for host genetics.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 9:15am, Orange County Convention Center, Room 310A, Level 3
Luke O’Connor. “Distinguishing genetic correlation from causation among 55 complex traits” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 10:15am, Room 230G. *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.
Xuanyao Liu. “Identifying complex traits under polygenic selection in the UK Biobank.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 11:00 am, Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Room 230G Level 2 *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.
Pier Palamara. “High-throughput inference of pairwise coalescent times identifies signals of selection and enriched disease heritability.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 11:30 AM, Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Room 230G Level 2 *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award. *This work will also be presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2017.
Farhad Hormozdiari. “Leveraging molecular QTL to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 20th, 10:30 AM, Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Room 330C, Level 3
ASHG Posters
Steven Gazal. “Partitioning heritability of low-frequency variants reveals relative strength of negative selection across functional annotations”Poster Talk #2347W on Tuesday, October 17th, 7:15-9:15 pm Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center and poster presentation on Wednesday, October 18th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Armin Schoech. “Quantification of MAF-dependent architectures in 14 UK Biobank traits reveals strength of genome-wide negative selection.” Wednesday, October 18th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Level 1
Bryce van de Geijn. “Annotations that capture tissue specific transcription factor binding explain a large fraction of disease heritability.”Wednesday, October 18th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Level 1
Hilary Finucane. “Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types.”Thursday, October 19th, 2pm, Exhibit Hall, 2951T Level 1, Convention Center
Carla Marquez Luna. “Modeling functional enrichment improves polygenic prediction accuracy in UK Biobank and 23andMe data sets” Thursday, October 19th, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center
Gleb Kichaev. “Leveraging polygenic functional enrichment to improve GWAS power” Thursday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center
To see talks and posters from previous years, click here.
