Dear Allstat,
please note the following lecture http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lims/events/limslecturefeb062008.htm at the Lighthill Institute in London:
Statistical Genetics
Wednesday 6th February 2008
Professor Peter Donnelly[ University of Oxford ]
Although there had been extensive research for many years, until about 18 months ago there were only a handful of genetic variants reliably confirmed as affecting susceptibility to common human diseases. The advent of high-throughput genotyping chips, and suitably-powered large studies, has led to an explosion of findings in this area, and around 100 loci harbouring such variants are now known across 20 or 30 diseases. The talk will describe the largest study to date, the Welcome Trust Case Control Consortium, which is responsible for many of the novel findings, and describe several of the substantive statistical challenges faced within these projects.
Kind regards,
Sofia
Professor Sofia Olhede
Department of Statistical Science
University College London
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksc0/
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