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Lecture: GWAS and Type 2 Diabetes

21 Jun 2012-21 Jun 2012, 17:15-18:15, Seminar rooms A & B, SGDP Centre, Denmark Hill Campus

Event series: SGDP guest lecture
School / area: Institute of Psychiatry
Department: MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre
Location: Denmark Hill Campus
Speaker: Dr Michael Boehnke
Speaker institution: University of Michigan

IDENTIFYING TYPE 2 DIABETES ASSOCIATED GENETIC VARIANTS BY GWAS AND SEQUENCING

Genome-wide association studies and follow-up genotyping have proven remarkably effective at identifying common variants associated with human diseases and traits.  Advances in sequencing technology are enabling a new wave of genetic association studies based on resequencing large numbers of individuals, allowing more detailed coverage of the genome, especially for less common variants.

In this talk, I will describe the current state of our type 2 diabetes GWAS and sequencing studies, and some of the design issues and analysis challenges and opportunities associated with these studies.



Contact name: Isabel Sinha
Email: Isabel.Sinha@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7848 0871

 

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