Statistical Methods for Next Generation Sequencing Studies

Organizer: Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
Chair: Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
Time: Friday, 15:00–16:30
Room: LInC 302

15:00-15:30

Improving power for rare variant tests by integrating external controls

Seunggeun Lee, University of Michigan

15:30-16:00

Post-hoc marker-set analysis—a false negative control procedure for rare variant analysis at single locus level

Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University

16:00-16:30

Statistical approaches for predicting the functional effect of genetic variation

Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Columbia University