PQG SEMINAR - Hua Tang - 4/14 - Meetings Available

[Andelman, Shaina B]

Next PQG Seminar!

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

FXB G12

12:30-2:00 PM

a pizza lunch will be served

Hua Tang

Associate Professor of Genetics

Genetics Associate Professor (By courtesy) of Statistics

Stanford Cancer Institute

Stanford School of Medicine

Learning about the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits Across Populations

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a standard approach for identifying loci influencing complex traits. However, GWAS in non-European populations are hampered by limited sample sizes and are thus underpowered. Can GWAS results in one population be exploited to boost the power of mapping loci relevant in another population? The first part of the this talk will describe a set of analyses, which address the question, “to what extent does the genetic architecture of a complex trait overlap between human populations?” The second part of the talk will introduce an empirical Bayes approach, which improves the power of mapping trait loci relevant in a specific minority population through adaptively leveraging multi-ethnic evidence. A case study on plasma lipid concentration will be presented.

Dr. Tang will be available for a series of meetings during the day.  Please let me know if you would like to schedule one of the following times:

    

10:00-10:00

10:30-11:00

11:00-11:30

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

3:30-4:00

4:00-4:30

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Remaining 2015 PQG Schedule

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

12:30-2:00 PM 

FXB G12 

Steve Horvath, UCLA

 

FRIDAY, May 15, 2015

12:30-2:00 PM 

KRESGE G2

Christopher Amos, Dartmouth Medical School

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For more information on this series, and other PQG related events, please visit: www.hsph.harvard.edu/pqg