Methods for Genetic Studies across Multiple Phenotypes

Methods for Genetic Studies across Multiple Phenotypes

Statistics and Genomics Seminar
Nov 17, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Professor Noah Zaitlen, Department of Medicine, UC San Francisco
Testing for associations in big data faces the problem of multiple comparisons, with true signals buried inside the noise of all associations queried. This is particularly true in genetic association studies where a substantial proportion of the variation of human phenotypes is driven by numerous genetic variants of small effect. The current strategy to improve power to identify these weak...