Practical GWAS Using Linux and R
Dates
23-27 October 2017
Workshop overview
The past decade has witnessed an astonishing development and the universal use of genome wide association studies (GWAS) in identification and characterisation of genetic variants underlying disorders and other variations in human and other species, which has an immense impact in biomedical research. This is owing to the ability to efficiently generate and process large quantity of genetic polymorphisms as well as to integrate with other sources such as gene expression and methylation. To tackle challenges in GWAS, a lot of methods and techniques have been established but many others are still evolving. The workshop therefore intends to give a grand picture as well as practical aspects of GWAS.
Targeted audience and assumed background
The purpose of this workshop is to render both a broad picture and computational details of GWAS to biomedical researchers and related fields. It sets to explore the biological, statistical, and computational concepts, methodologies and practices involving a variety of software based on Linux and R. Examples of consortium contributions will also be given. These will be particularly beneficial to those who come with their own problems and wish to implement the analysis.
Workshop structure
The workshop contains both lecture and computer sessions, designed to help participants to understand the background, methodology and implementation. The computer session is designed to facilitate data analysis and interpretation.
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program
The workshop consists of the following modules.
Module 1. Overview
Module 2. Genetic association
Module 3. GWAS
Module 4. Advanced topics
Module 5. Additional topics
Each takes approximately a day.
Instructor
Trained in medicine, medical statistics and statistical genetics, he had worked on statistical and computational methods for epidemiological and public health studies at several institutions until 2005, when he joined the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, to work on design and analysis of GWAS such as the EPIC-Norfolk, the Fenland and the InterAct. He has also participated in numerous genetic analysis workshops which involve both simulated and real data such as those from the Framingham heart study. Besides methodological development, data analysis, and other academic activities, he has also had tutorials on genetic dissection of complex traits with focus on GWAS at UseR! 2008, 2009, and 2010 Conferences and contributed a Henry-Stewart talk on genetic association with R.
Assistant Instructor
Dr Guo has research interest in statistical genomics and is a research fellow at Cardiovascular
Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Prior to coming to Cambridge, she has capitalised from research in metabolomics and via statistical analysis and integration of multi-omics
datasets at Imperial College London. After she joined the University of Cambridge, she led a large-scale GWAS and meta-analysis of multiple studies of breast cancer survival for Breast Cancer
Association Consortium (BCAC). Currently, she is working on discovery of rare genomic determinants of protein expression levels for ~4000 distinct proteins using whole exome sequencing technology
for the INTERVAL project. Her work involves extensive use of statistical, computational and epidemiological methodologies.
Dr Guo has given lectures on genetic epidemiology and genetic association studies for the MPhil course in Public Health and Epidemiology, and supervises epidemiology and biostatistics course for
under graduate students at Clare College, both within the University of Cambridge.
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