07/21/2016 @ 14:00-14:45 Research Talk by Noah Zaitlen Variances and Covariances in Recently Admixed Populations 1. Zou, J.Y., Park, D.S., Burchard, E.G., Torgerson, D.G., Pino-Yanes, M., Song, Y.S., Sankararaman, S., Halperin, E. and Zaitlen, N., 2015. Genetic and socioeconomic study of mate choice in Latinos reveals novel assortment patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of…
07/21/2016 @ 09:15-10:00 Research Talk by Jennifer Listgarten Structured Populations in Genetics 1. Lippert, C., Listgarten, J., Liu, Y., Kadie, C.M., Davidson, R.I. and Heckerman, D., 2011. FaST linear mixed models for genome-wide association studies. Nature methods, 8(10), pp.833-835. 2. Listgarten, J., Lippert, C., Kadie, C.M., Davidson, R.I., Eskin, E. and Heckerman, D., 2012. Improved…
07/20/2016 @ 16:15-17:00 Research Talk by Alexander Schönhuth Quantifying Uncertainties in Big Genome Data 1. Marschall, T., Costa, I.G., Canzar, S., Bauer, M., Klau, G.W., Schliep, A. and Schönhuth, A., 2012. CLEVER: clique-enumerating variant finder. Bioinformatics, 28(22), pp.2875-2882. 2. Marschall, T. and Schoenhuth, A., 2013. LASER: Sensitive long-Indel-aware alignment of sequencing reads. arXiv. org e-Print…
07/20/2016 @ 14:00-14:45 Research Talk by Bogdan Pasaniuc Methods to understand the Polygenic Architecture of Complex Traits 1. Shi, H., Kichaev, G. and Pasaniuc, B., 2016. Contrasting the genetic architecture of 30 complex traits from summary association data. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 99(1), pp.139-153. 2. Gusev, A., Ko, A., Shi, H., Bhatia, G.,…
07/20/2016 @ 10:00-10:45 Research Talk by Jason Ernst Deciphering the Non-coding Human Genome 1. Ernst, J. and Kellis, M., 2010. Discovery and characterization of chromatin states for systematic annotation of the human genome. Nature biotechnology, 28(8), pp.817-825. 2. Ernst, J., Kheradpour, P., Mikkelsen, T.S., Shoresh, N., Ward, L.D., Epstein, C.B., Zhang, X., Wang, L., Issner,…
07/18/2016 @ 14:00-14:45 Research Talk by Leonid Kruglyak Genetic Basis of Complex Traits 1. Sadhu, M.J., Bloom, J.S., Day, L. and Kruglyak, L., 2016. CRISPR-directed mitotic recombination enables genetic mapping without crosses. Science, 352(6289), pp.1113-1116. 2. Bloom, J.S., Kotenko, I., Sadhu, M.J., Treusch, S., Albert, F.W. and Kruglyak, L., 2015. Genetic interactions contribute less than…
07/18/2016 @ 15:15-16:15 Research Talk by Carlos Bustamante Interpreting Human Variation in the Personal Genome Era 1. Shringarpure, S.S. and Bustamante, C.D., 2015. Privacy risks from genomic data-sharing beacons. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 97(5), pp.631-646. 2. Mendez, F.L., Poznik, G.D., Castellano, S. and Bustamante, C.D., 2016. The divergence of Neandertal and modern human…