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Post-Genome Knowledge Discovery
(January – June 2002)

Sub-theme 2. Population and statistical genetics (Mar - Apr 2002)

 

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 Workshop on population and statistical genetics (25 - 28 March 2002)

 

Workshop Schedule

 

Monday, 25 March 2002

 

Venue:  Auditorium
  Laboratories for Information Technology (formerly KRDL)
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
 

8:45 - 9:20am Registration (1st day)
9:20 - 9:25am Welcome by Simon Tavare, Co-chair, Organizing Committee
9:25 - 9:30am Address by David Siegmund, Member, Scientific Advisory Board
9:30 - 10:30am Mapping genes for quantitative trait loci in humans: current methods and study designs
Eleanor Feingold, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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10:30 - 11:00am  -- Coffee Break --
11:00 - 12:00am Mapping mutations on genealogies
Rasmus Nielsen, Cornell University, USA
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12:00 - 2:00pm  -- Lunch Break --
2:00 - 3:00pm Fine scale mapping of disease loci via shattered coalescent modelling of genealogies
Andrew Morris, Oxford Universty, UK
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3:00 - 3:30pm  -- Coffee Break --
3:30 - 4:30pm Investigating stem cells in human colon using methylation patterns
Simon Tavare, University of Southern California, USA
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Tuesday, 26 March 2002

 

Venue:  Auditorium
  Laboratories for Information Technology (formerly KRDL)
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
 

9:00 - 9:30am Registration (2nd day)
9:30 - 10:30am A unified multipoint linkage analysis of qualitative and quantitative traits for sib-pairs
I-shou Chang, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
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10:30 - 11:00am  -- Coffee Break --
11:00 - 12:00am The effect of natural selection on the fixation probability of a mutant under the high mutation rate
Fumio Tajima, University of Tokyo
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12:00 - 2:00pm  -- Lunch Break --
2:00 - 3:00pm A new molecular approach for haplotyping in large population-based association studies
Benjamin Yakir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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3:00 - 3:30pm  -- Coffee Break --
3:30 - 4:30pm Some population genetic considerations in association studies
Mark Seielstad, Genome Institute of Singapore
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Wednesday, 27 March 2002

 

Venue:  Auditorium
  Laboratories for Information Technology (formerly KRDL)
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
 

9:30 - 10:30am Statistical problems of genetic mapping
David Siegmund, Stanford University, USA
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10:30 - 11:00am  -- Coffee Break --
11:00 - 12:00am DNA variation of human genes
Clay Stephens, Genaissance Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA
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Thursday, 28 March 2002

 

Venue:  Auditorium
  Laboratories for Information Technology (formerly KRDL)
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
 

9:30 - 10:30am The effect of epistatic interactions on popular methods for finding complex disease genes
Susan Wilson, Australian National University, Australia
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10:30 - 11:00am  -- Coffee Break --
11:00 - 12:00am Topics in computational genomics
Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago, USA
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12:00 - 2:00pm  -- Lunch Break --
2:00 - 3:00pm Mapping adaptive polymorphisms in Arabidopsis using linkage disequilibrium
Magnus Nordborg, University of Southern California, USA
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3:00 - 3:30pm  -- Coffee Break --
3:30 - 4:30pm Approximate Bayesian computation in population genetics
David Balding, University of London, UK
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End of the workshop

 

 

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