Statistical Genetics Seminar

Winter Quarter 2013
Tuesday 4:00-5:00, F643 HSB

CURRENT SCHEDULE

• January 15: Brenda Price; Tim Thornton
  
  Rife DC (1954) Populations of hybrid origin as source material for the detection of linkage. Am J Hum Genet 6:26-33
  
  Chakraborty R, Weiss KM (1988) Admixture as a tool for finding linked genes and detecting that difference from allelic association between loci. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85:9119-9123
  
  
• January 22: Jan Irvahn; Bruce Weir
  
  McKeigue PM. (1997) Mapping genes that underlie ethnic differences in disease risk: methods for detecting linkage in admixed populations. Am J Hum Genet 60:188-196.
  
  
• January 29: Kevin Rubenstein; Ellen Wijsman
  
  Patterson N, Hattangadi N, Lane B, Lohmueller KE, Hafler DA, Oksenberg JR, Hauser SL, Smith MW, OBrien SJ, Altshuler D, et al. (2004) Methods for high-density admixture mapping of disease genes. Am J Hum Genet 74:979-1000.
  
  
• February 5: Qian Zhang; Sharon Browning
  
  Freedman ML, Haiman CA, Patterson N, McDonald GJ, Tandon A, Waliszewska A, Penney K, Steen RG, Ardlie K, John EM, Oakley-Girvan I, Whittemore AS, Cooney KA, Ingles SA, Altshuler D, Henderson BE, Reich D. (2006) Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African-American men PNAS 103: 14068-14073
  
  
• February 12: Serge Sverdlov; Tim Thornton
  
  Price AL, Tandon A, Patterson N, Barnes KC, Rafaels N, Ruczinski I, Beaty TH, Mathias R, Reich D, Myers S. (2009) Sensitive detection of chromosomal segments of distinct ancestry in admixed populations. PLoS Genet. 5, e1000519.
  
  
• February 19: Lisa Brown; Tim Thornton
  
  Alexander DH , Novembre J, Lange K (2009). Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals. Genome Res. 19, 1655-1664.
  
  
• February 26: Class will not meet due to Jeff Leek's seminar.
  
  Please attend Jeff Leek's Seminar in Health Sciences T-733 at 3:30 PM.
  
  
• March 5: Research Seminar by Caitlin McHugh and Jean Morrison
  
  Title:
  
  "X Chromosome Ancestry & Assortative Mating in the HapMap Mexican Americans" (Caitlin McHugh)
  
  "Association testing for family studies with population structure" (Jean Morrison)
  
  
• March 12: Research Seminar by Matt Conomos
  
  Title:
  
  "Ancestry informative principal components analysis in admixed samples with known or cryptic relatedness"