Spring Quarter 2007
Seminar: Tuesday 4:00-5:00, probably in F643 HSB
Mar. 27: We will have the usual organizational meeting to pick topics and speakers. Bring one or more topic or paper written down on a piece of paper.
Apr. 3: Yanming Di
Zollner and Pritchard (2007)
Overcoming the Winner's Curse: Estimating Penetrance Parameters from Case-Control Data. Am J Hum Genet 80:605-615
Apr. 10: Pui Yee Fong and Sangsoon Woo
Harald H. H. Göring, Joseph D. Terwilliger, and John Blangero (2001)
Large Upward Bias in Estimation of Locus-Specific Effects from Genomewide Scans
Am J Hum Genet 69:1357-1369
Apr. 17: Amy Anderson and Carra Carty
Gil McVean (2007) The structure of linkage disequilibrium around a selective
sweep. Genetics 175:1395-1406
Apr. 24: Ben Ely and Carolyn Hutter
Main paper: Zaykin DV, Meng ZL, Ehm MG
(2006) Contrasting linkage-disequilibrium patterns between cases and
controls as a novel association-mapping method. Am J Hum Genet
78:737-746; and
Also relevant: Wang T, Zhu X, and Elston RC (2007) Improving Power in contrasting
Linkage Disequilibrium patterns between cases and controls. Am J Hum Genet
May 80(5) Epub March 28, 2007.
May 1: Liping Tong and Rori Rohlfs
Smith TF and Waterman MS (1981) Identification
of common molecular subsequences. J Mol Biol 147:195-197.
Get a copy of the paper from Waterman's web site:
www.cmb.usc.edu/people/msw/publications.html
May 8: Grace Ge
Research talk:
"Exploring the genetics of time-varying Quantitative
Trait from longitudinal data--QTL mapping for a complex trait".
May 16: Elisabeth Rosenthal & Yoonha Choi
Price TS et al (2005) SW-ARRAY: a dynamic programming solution for the
identification of copy-number changes in genomic DNA using array
comparative genome hybridization data. Nucleic Acids Research
33:3455-3464.
Bansal V et al (2007) Evidence for large inversion polymorphisms in the
human genome from HapMap data Genome Research 17:219-230.
May 22: Weiva Sieh: Research talk
Challenges in mapping disease genes: Alzheimer's disease and ALS/PDC of Guam
May 29: Audrey Fu: Research talk
Incorporating linkage disequilibrium into sib pair studies
using dense SNP data.