2017 Fall Seminars

The effect of paternal-age-related genetic mutations on risk for five disorders

Jacob Taylor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Broad Institute
September 15, 2017

 

Annotations that capture tissue specific transcription factor binding explain a large fraction of disease heritability

Bryce van de Geijn
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
September 22, 2017

 

Quantification of frequency-dependent genetic architectures and action of negative selection in 25 UK Biobank traits

Armin Schoech
Graduate Student
Department of Epidemiology
September 29, 2017

 

From ensembles to single-cells: A window into cis- and trans- epigenomic variability.

Jason Buenrostro
Broad Fellow
Broad Institute
October 6, 2017

 

Modeling functional enrichment improves polygenic prediction accuracy in UK Biobank and 23andMe data sets.

Carla Marquez Luna
Graduate Student
Department of Epidemiology
October 13, 2017

 

Efficient gene-based detection of trans- gene regulation

Xuanyao Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
October 27, 2017

 

How (not) to interpret “heritabilities” from LD score regression applied to analyses of binary or survival traits

Emily Slade
Graduate Student
Department of Epidemiology
November 3, 2017

 

Shared Genetic Architecture between Doctor Diagnosed Asthma and Allergic Diseases

Zhaozhong Zhu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
November 17, 2017

See Spring 2017 seminars here.