ASHG/WCPG Talks and Posters

2013 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

October 17-21, 2013.  Boston, MA.

 

Sasha Gusev: “Quantifying missing heritability from coding variation in Schizophrenia”
Platform presentation. Saturday October 19th, 3:00-3:15 pm, Room Cityview 1 & 2.  In session “Genetic Architecture: Statistical and Genomic Dissection.”

 

Bjarni Vilhjalmsson: “Bayesian Polygenic Risk Prediction of Schizophrenia using Summary Statistics”
Poster #39 + oral workshop session.  Friday October 18th, 12:15-2:15 pm, Room Federal Complex 1 & 2.  In session “Biostatistics/Bioinformatics.”

 

 

2013 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 22-26, 2013.  Boston, MA.

 

Alkes Price: “Mixed model association methods: advantages and pitfalls” (slides)
Platform presentation #26.  2:15-2:30pm on Wednesday October 23rd.  Grand Ballroom West, Level 3, Convention Center.

 

Chia-yen Chen: “Explicit modeling of genetic ancestry improves polygenic prediction accuracy”
Poster #882W.  11:30am-12:30pm on Wednesday October 23rd.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Bjarni Vilhjalmsson: “Bayesian Polygenic Risk Prediction using Summary Statistics”
Poster #1713T.  10:30-11:30am on Thursday October 24th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Tristan Hayeck: “Mixed model association statistic with correction for case-control ascertainment provides large increase in power.”
Poster #1773T.  10:30-11:30am on Thursday October 24th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Hilary Finucane: “Estimating genetic correlations between traits from summary statistics”
Poster #1938T.  11:30am-12:30pm on Thursday October 24th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Gaurav Bhatia: “Inference of population structure using sequence data”
Poster #2095F. 10:30-11:30am on Friday October 25th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Po-Ru Loh: “Bayesian mixed model association statistics in linear time”
Poster #1780F.  11:30am-12:30pm on Friday October 25th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Sasha Gusev: “Quantifying missing heritability from known GWAS loci and rare coding variants”
Poster #998F. 11:30am-12:30pm on Friday October 25th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

2013 ASHG Presentations By Our Collaborators

 

Yaniv Erlich: “Harnessing Web 2.0 Social Networks for Genetic Epidemiology Studies with Millions of People”
Platform presentation #109.  8:45-9:00am on Thursday October 24th.  Grand Ballroom West, Level 3, Convention Center.

 

Brendan Bulik-Sullivan: “LD Friends: A Method to Disentangle Polygenicity from Population Stratification”
Poster presentation #1799W.  10:30-11:30am on Wednesday October 23rd.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

Bogdan Pasaniuc: “Probabilistic method with correction for imputation error improves fine-mapping resolution”
Poster presentation #770F.  11:30am-12:30pm on Friday October 25th.  Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center.

 

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