Validating breast cancer risk prediction models in the Korean Cancer PRevention Study-II Biobank (Yon Ho Jee)
The association between somatic mutational profiles and germline polygenic risk scores in TCGA (Yuxi Liu)
Yon Ho Jee & Yuxi Liu
Master’s & Doctoral Candidates
Department of Epidemiology
February 14, 2020
Cross-cancer cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) of 11 cancers identifies 56 novel genes
Helian Feng
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
February 21, 2020
Sex hormones, sex-specific genetic regulations, and sex differences in cardiometabolic diseases
Jie (Jack) Hu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Women’s Health, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
February 28, 2020
Improving the informativeness of Mendelian disease pathogenicity scores for common disease using AnnotBoost
Sam Kim
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
March 6, 2020
Leveraging gene co-expression to identify gene sets enriched for disease heritability
Katie Siewert
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
March 13, 2020
The impact of human genetics in drug discovery
Ying Wu
Senior Manager, Bioinformatics & Manager, Human Genetics
Pfizer
March 27, 2020
Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS
Wouter Peyrot
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
April 3, 2020
Association Analysis of Whole Genome Sequencing of Diverse Populations
Tamar Sofer
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics, HSPH & Brigham and Women’s Hospital
April 10, 2020
Strategies to Improve the specificity of deep learning annotations for autoimmune diseases
Kushal Dey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
April 17, 2020
Quantifying gene-level directional effects in UK Biobank whole-exome sequencing data
Martin Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
April 24, 2020
Disentangling gene co-regulation to prioritize causal genes in transcriptome-wide association studies
Huwenbo Shi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
May 1, 2020
Leveraging fine-mapping and trans-ethnic data to improve trans-ethnic polygenic risk scores
Omer Weissbrod
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
May 8, 2020
Interplay between polygenic risk for obesity and dietary quality on obesity and weight change: findings from 3 US prospective cohorts
Jun Li
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition
May 15, 2020
Is “Genetic Epidemiology” Epidemiology?
Peter Kraft
Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics
May 22, 2020
