2014 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
October 18-22, 2014, in San Diego, CA.
Kevin Galinsky. “Fast PCA of very large samples in linear time.” Platform talk #156. Monday Oct. 20th, 12:00pm. Room 29, Upper Level.
Po-Ru Loh. “Efficient Bayesian mixed model analysis increases association power in large cohorts.” Platform talk #200. Monday Oct. 20th, 5:00pm. Room 20A, Upper Level.
*This presentation was selected for a 2014 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.
Amit Joshi. “GWAS meta-analysis of ten studies identifies five novel loci associated with gallstone disease in European ancestry individuals.” Platform talk #271. Tuesday Oct. 21st, 10:30am. Room 6DE, Upper Level.
Hilary Finucane. “Partitioning heritability by functional category using summary statistics.” Platform talk #351. Tuesday Oct. 21st, 4:30pm. Room 6DE, Upper Level.
*This work will also be presented as a platform talk at GCD 2014 on Sept. 19th.
Alkes Price. “Heritability of functional variant classes in schizophrenia and other traits: regulatory elements explain more heritability than coding variants.” Invited talk. Wednesday Oct. 22nd, 9:30am. Room 20BC, Upper Level.
Gaurav Bhatia. “Haplotypes explain additional heritability of complex traits.” Poster #937S. Sunday, Oct. 19th, 4:00-5:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Bjarni Vilhjalmsson. “Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores.” Poster #1767S. Sunday, Oct. 19th, 4:00-5:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
*This work will also be presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2014 on Oct. 15th.
Tris Hayeck. “Mixed model with correction for case-control ascertainment increases power in multiple sclerosis association study.” Poster #1746S. Sunday, Oct. 19th, 5:00-6:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Chi Gao. Poster #1103M. Monday, Oct. 20th, 2:00-3:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Richard Barfield. Poster #1768M. Monday, Oct. 20th, 3:00-4:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Pier Palamara, with former PhD mentor Itsik Pe’er. “Inference of mutation rates using hidden relatedness.” Poster #1956M. Monday, Oct. 20th, 3:00-4:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Xin Li. Poster #663T. Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 2:00-3:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Hugues Aschard. “Adjusting for heritable covariates can bias effect estimates in genome-wide association studies.” Poster #966T. Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 3:00-4:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
Sasha Gusev. “Regulatory variants explain much more heritability than coding variants across 11 common diseases.” Poster #936T. Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 3:00-4:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.
*This work was also presented as a platform talk at Biology of Genomes 2014 on May 8th.
Sara Lindstroem. “A comprehensive survey of genetic variation in 20,769 subjects from the Harvard Cohorts.” Poster #1796T. Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 3:00-4:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Ground Level.