2021 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
October 18-22, 2021
ASHG Talks
Tiffany Amariuta. “Modeling tissue co-regulation to quantify tissue-specific contributions to disease heritability.” Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 5:30pm. Session 020. *This presentation was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.
Sam Kim. “Leveraging single-cell ATAC-seq to identify disease-critical fetal and adult brain type cells.” Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 6:30pm. Session 020.
Ben Strober (with previous mentor Alexis Battle). “Uncovering context-specific genetic regulation of gene expression from single-cell RNA-sequencing using latent-factor models”. Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 6:45pm. Session 020.
Alkes L. Price (project led by Karthik Jagadeesh & Kushal K. Dey). “Identifying disease-critical cell types and cellular processes across the human body by integration of single-cell profiles and human genetics.” Platform talk. Wednesday, October 20th, 11:45am. Session 026.
Richard Border (with primary mentor Noah Zaitlen). “Widespread evidence of systematic bias in estimates of genetic correlation due to assortative mating”. Plenary talk. Wednesday, October 20th, 1:40pm. Session 027. *This presentation was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.
ASHG Posters
Wouter Peyrot. “Distinguishing different psychiatric disorders using polygenic prediction.” Poster #2695 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. This work was also presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2021.
Huwenbo Shi (with co-first author Martin Jinye Zhang). “Transcriptome-wide association studies and fine-mapping at cell-type resolution.” Poster #3124 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Kushal K. Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing disease genes by integrating GWAS and WES with gene-level functional and perturbation data.” Poster #3184 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Martin Jinye Zhang (with co-first author Kangcheng Hou). “Polygenic enrichment distinguishes disease associations of individual cells in single-cell RNA-seq data.” Poster #3505 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award. This poster was also selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Karthik Jagadeesh (with co-first author Kushal K. Dey). “Dynamic cell-type-specific eQTL from single-cell RNA-seq of inflamed and non-inflamed colon elucidate biological mechanisms of ulcerative colitis.” Poster #3816 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.
Steven Gazal. “Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to pinpoint disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity.” Poster #3878 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. This work was also presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2021.
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