International Workshop on Statistical Genetics

November 18-19, 2013

Room 2201, East Guanghua Tower, Fudan University, Shanghai

November 18

9:30-10:15           Yunxin Fu, University of Texas

Inference on the distribution of mutations during germline development

10:15-11:00         Hsin-Chou Yang, Academia Sinica

Deciphering medical genomics and population genomics using single nucleotide polymorphisms and other types of genetic markers

11:00-11:10         Tea Break

11:10-11:55         David O. Siegmund, Stanford University

Detection of genomic signals by resequencing

14:00-14:45         I-Shou Chang, National Health Research Institutes

Looking for functional content of SNPs associated with cancer susceptibility

14:45-15:30         Weidong Tian, Fudan University

Gene set analysis, a network-based gene-weighting approach

15:30-15:40         Tea Break

15:40-16:25         Yuan-Chin Ivan Chang, Academia Sinica

A general AUC-type measure and biomarkers selection

16:25-17:10         Chen-Hsin Chen, Academia Sinica

Heteroscedastic mixture regression models for disease susceptibility and cure

November 19

9:30-10:15           Haipeng Li, CAS-MPG Partner Institute

Recent positive selection? Or false positives?

10:15-11:00         Yueqing Hu, Fudan University

Detection of rare variants for multiple ordinal traits in association study

11:00-11:10         Tea Break