Jackson 2015
Meeting Overview: Presentations
State of CHARGE
Christopher J. O'Donnell (Center for Populations Genomics, Boston Veteran's Administration Healthcare System)NHLBI’s TOPMed Project
James G. Wilson, M.D. (University of Mississippi Medical Center)Analyzing WGS in Families
John Blangero, Ph.D. (Texas Biomedical Research Institute)Analysis of Whole Genome Sequence Data
Goncalo Abecasis, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)The Precision Medicine Initiative
Teri Manolio, M.D., Ph.D. (National Human Genome Research Institute)Large-Scale and Distributed Genetic Analyses: The Next Frontier of Discovery
Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D. (University of Texas School of Public Health)Accelerating Research and Drug Development with a Consumer-Based Participant Cohort
Youna Hu, Ph.D. (23andMe, Inc.)Large Scale Human Genetics Applied to Drug Discovery & Development
Alan R. Shuldiner, M.D. (Regeneron Genetics Center)Million Veteran Program
J. Michael Gaziano, M.D., M.P.H. (VA Boston Healthcare System)Whole Exome Sequence Meta-analysis of 13 White Blood Cell, Red Blood Cell, and Platelet Traits
Linda M. Polfus, Ph.D. (Human Genetics Center, University of Texas)Rare Exome Sequence Variants in CLCN6 Reduce Blood Pressure Levels and Hypertension Risk
Bing Yu, Ph.D. (Human Genetics Center, University of Texas)Meta-Analysis of Gene-Smoking Interactions in Blood Pressure using 1000 Genomes Imputed Data from Four Ethnic Groups (Gene-Lifestyle WG)
Yun Ju Sung, Ph.D. (Washington University School of Medicine)Sharing of CHARGE Results through dbGaP
Stephen S. Rich, Ph.D. (University of Virginia)The Accelerating Medicines Partnership T2D-GENES Knowledgebase Portal: an Overview
Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D. (The Broad Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital)The Accelerating Medicines Partnership T2D-GENES Knowledgebase Portal: a User-Friendly Window on Human Genomic Data
Mary Carmichael, B.A. (The Broad Institute)CHARGE and ENCODE: Looking Ahead
Robert Klein, Ph.D. (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital)Massively Parallel Dissection of Gene Regulatory Elements and Their Variants
Nadav Ahituv, Ph.D. (University of California, San Francisco)Making Sense of GWAS: Using Epigenomics and Genome Engineering to Understand the Functional Relevance of SNPs in Non-Coding Regions of the Human Genome
Peggy J. Farnham, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)Cancer Genomics: from Discovery to Clinical Translation
Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D. (McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University)Prevalence of Incidental Findings of Potentially Actionable Variants in Exome Chip in the CHARGE Consortium
Yi-Ping Fu, Ph.D. (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) & Marja Puurunen, M.D., Ph.D. (Boston University School of Medicine)Approach to Incidental Findings
Michael F. Murray, M.D. (Geisinger Precision Health Center)Integrating Regulatory Genomics and Biological Validation to Identify Functional Rare Non-Coding Variants near EN1 gene with Large Effects on Bone Mineral Density from Whole-Genome Sequencing
Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Sc.D. (Harvard Medical School)Identification of GWAS genetic variants associated with gene and transcript isoform variation in human whole blood
Xiaoling Zhang, Ph.D. (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute)Predicting novel GWAS loci based on shared regulatory architecture inferred from ENCODE and Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium datasets (Adiposity WG)
Gerald Quon, Ph.D. (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)