2018 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
October 16-20, 2018, in San Diego, California
ASHG Talks
Omer Weissbrod.“Polygenic localization of disease heritability using functional annotations” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 17th, 5:00pm, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6A, Upper Level, Session 027
Margaux Hujoel. “Disease heritability enrichment of regulatory elements is concentrated in elements with ancient sequence age and conserved function across species.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 19th, 9:45am, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6A, Upper Level, Session 068. *This presentation was selected for a 2018 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.
Alkes Price. “Impact of negative selection on common variant disease architectures.” Invited Talk. Friday, October 19th, 12:00pm-12:30pm, San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20BC, Upper Level, Session 078.
ASHG Posters
Luke O’Connor. “Polygenicity varies with allele frequency and functional category due to negative selection.” Poster #3528 on Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Alkes Price.“Reconciling S-LDSC and LDAK models and functional enrichment estimates.” Poster #3432 on Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center.
Huwenbo Shi with former mentor Bogdan Pasaniuc.“Joint analysis of GWAS summary statistics in East Asians and Europeans provides insights into population-specific and shared causal variants of complex traits.” Poster #3558 on Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Wouter Peyrot with former mentor Naomi Wray.“Environmental factors are often heritable. Does this bias polygenic gene-by-environment interaction analyses?” Poster #3355 on Thursday, October 18th, 2:00-3:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
Sam Kim. “Leveraging biological pathways and gene networks to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits.”Poster #3430 on Thursday, October 18th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
Bryce van de Geijn. “Detection and replication of rare variant driven gene expression outliers via joint modeling of total and allele-specific expression.”Poster #2002 on Thursday, October 18th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
Carla Marquez Luna. “Leveraging functional enrichment improves polygenic prediction accuracy.” Poster #3401 on Friday, October 19th, 2:00-3:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
Steven Gazal. “Low-frequency variant functional architectures reveal strength of negative selection across coding and non-coding annotations.”Poster #2699 on Friday, October 19th, 2:00-3:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
Farhad Hormozdiari. “Contribution of transposable elements to disease and complex trait heritability.”Poster #2570 on Friday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
Armin Schoech. “Estimating the autocorrelation of causal SNP effect size magnitudes as a function of genomic distance.”Poster #3404 on Friday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center
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