Trans–NIH Workshop
Genome-wide Association: Analyze This!
The Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative
The Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
August 4–5, 2008
Mark your calendar for August 4–5, 2008, and plan to attend Genome-wide Association Studies: Analyze This, to be held at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
The purpose of this workshop is to share and discuss statistical strategies to identify environmental components or covariates of disease and their interactions with genes in genome-wide association studies. The workshop is supported by the Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (GEI). GEI is a four-year NIH-wide program in the President’s budget to identify major genetic susceptibility factors for disease and to develop technologies for reliable and reproducible measurement of potential causative environmental exposures. Participants in this GEI workshop will listen to presentations and participate in discussions on issues pertaining to analysis of genome-wide association studies with a gene-environment interaction component. Additionally, a poster session will be held to facilitate interaction amongst investigators and their students/trainees.
This workshop will help to:
Identify analytical issues for genome-wide association studies
Identify unique issues to analyzing gene-environment interactions
Promote discussion among researchers performing genome-wide association
Workshop co-chairs:
Lon Cardon, Ph.D., Head of Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline
Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine (Section Chief - Genetic Medicine) and Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Confirmed speakers:
Chris Amos, Ph.D., University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lon Cardon, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline
David V. Conti, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., The University of Chicago
Patty S. Freedson, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Stacey Gabriel, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Federico Goodsaid, Ph.D., U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH
Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Eugene Houseman, Sc.D., University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Charles Lee, Ph.D., FACMG, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Yves A. Lussier, M.D., The University of Chicago
Teri Manolio, M.D., Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH
Christopher O'Donnell, M.D., M.P.H., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH
Michael Province, Ph.D., Washington University St. Louis
Noah A. Rosenberg, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School
Ingo Ruczinski, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Clarice Weinberg, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH
Brenda Weis, Ph.D., National Insitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/NIH
The Workshop Organizing Committee:
Dina N. Paltoo, Ph.D., M.P.H., Committee Chair, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH
Thomas Lehner, Ph.D., M.P.H., National Institute of Mental Health/NIH
Yin Yao, Ph.D., National Institute of Mental Health/NIH
Rebekah Rasooly, Ph.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH
Cashell Jaquish, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH
Gang Zheng, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH
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