Statistical Genetics Seminar

Spring Quarter 2009
Tuesday 4:00-5:00,F643 HSB

CURRENT SCHEDULE

A few faculty names are incomplete & will be filled in as faculty respond (or not, as the case may be this quarter with the grant-writing craziness). Links to articles/journals should all work from an on-campus computer.

Apr 7: Ming Su and Yanming Di (with Bruce Weir).
Long JC (1991) The genetic-structure of admixed populations.
Genetics 127:417-428.

Apr 14: Karen Liu and Sangsoon Woo (with Vladimir Minin).
Pritchard JK, Stephens M, Donnelly P (2000) Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data.
Genetics 155:945-959.

Apr 21: Wei Zhao and David Myers (with Bruce Weir).
Patterson N, Price AL, Reich D (2006) Population structure and eigenanalysis.
PloS Genetics 2:2074-2093.

Apr 28: Charles Cheung, Liz Marchani, and Beate Peter (with Jon Wakefield).
Novembre J, Stephens M (2008) Interpreting principal component analysis of spatial population genetic variation.
Nature Genetics 40:646-649. UW access, journal issue website
For real data examples see Novembre J et al (2008) Genes mirror geography within Europe.
Nature 456:98-101, U5. UW access, journal issue website

May 5: Julia Palacios Roman and Pui Yee Fong (with Barbara McKnight).
Devlin B, Roeder K (1999) Genomic control for association studies.
Biometrics 55:997-1004. UW access, journal issue website

May 12: Kevin Rubenstein and Zheng Cai (with Elizabeth Thompson).
Hoggart CJ et al (2003) Control of confounding of genetic associations in stratified populations.
Am J Hum Genet 72:1492-1504.

May 19: Natalie Thompson, Yoonha Choi and Patrick Danaher (with Ellen Wijsman).
Epstein MP, Allen AS, Satten GA (2007) A simple and improved correction for population stratification in case-control studies.
Am J Hum Genetic 80:921-930.

May 26: We revisit Devlin & Roeder (1999) - see May 5. Bruce has posted some discussion questions here.

June 2: Fred Boehm and Serge Sverdlov (with Ellen Wijsman).
Tian et al (2008) Analysis and application of European genetic substructure using 300 KSNP information. Plos Genetics 4(1), January.
journal issue website