Programme
| First Day (Monday 8th April) | ||
| 08:00 | Registration | |
| 08:50 | Welcome from Organising Chair Dr. Eleisa Heron | |
| 09:00 | Session 1: Populations | |
| Amke Caliebe | Letting the pigs out of the poke - insights into early pig domestication provided by ancient DNA | |
| Michael Salter-Townshend | Local ancestry inference in non-model organisms | |
| Genís Garcia-Erill | Evaluation of model fit of inferred admixture proportions | |
| Michael Nothnagel | Distinct human genetic variation in Iran | |
| Ross P. Byrne | Fine-scale population structure and demographic change through time and space in the Netherlands | |
| 10:30 | Tea and Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Session 2: Methods | |
| Ann-Sophie Buchardt | Identifying interactions via hierarchical lasso regularisation | |
| Arthur Frouin | Estimating narrow-sense heritability with ridge regression | |
| Saurabh Ghosh | Allele-based association mapping of longitudinal phenotypes via binomial regression and Mahalanobis distance | |
| Yasmmyn D. Salinas | An empirical comparison of multivariate and univariate methods for detection of cross-phenotype associations: an example using asthma and body mass index | |
| Erin Macdonald-Dunlop | Comparison of multiple omics aging clocks | |
| 12:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session 1
Monday poster authors are at their posters 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| 14:00 | Session 3: Diseases and Disorders | |
| Grégory Nuel | Advanced posterior carrier distributions in mendelian cancer risk models | |
| Karoline Kuchenbaecker | The transferability of lipid-associated loci across African, Asian and European cohorts | |
| Mairead L. Bermingham | Leveraging DNA methylation signatures in peripheral blood as predictors of impaired respiratory function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
| Peter Holmans | Huntington's disease as a complex trait? Genetic overlap between psychiatric symptoms and neuropsychiatric disorders | |
| Laura Fahey | The contribution of BCL11B related biology to schizophrenia and cognition | |
| 15:30 | Tea and Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Invited Speaker: Prof. Stephan Ripke | |
| 17:10 | Future EMGMs | |
| 18:30 |
Conference Dinner
Tour of Old Library, Book of Kells, followed by conference dinner |
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| Second Day (Tuesday 9th April) | ||
| 08:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Session 4: Methods | |
| Andrea Doeschl-Wilson | Eradication of infectious disease in farm animals through gene editing: a theoretical feasibility study | |
| Christopher Pooley | Estimating genetic and treatment effects for host susceptibility, infectivity and recoverability using temporal epidemic data | |
| Hervé Perdry | An extension of SKAT to account for several groups of cases in rare variant association tests | |
| Mohamad Saad | Accounting for cryptic relatedness between subjects with no genotype data across families | |
| Laurence J Howe | Assortative mating and between-spouse comparisons | |
| 10:30 | Tea and Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Session 5: Mendelian Randomization | |
| Eleonora Porcu | Mendelian randomization integrating GWAS and eQTL data reveals genetic determinants of complex and clinical traits | |
| Adriaan van der Graaf | MR-link: Mendelian randomization under linkage disequilibrium and unobserved pleiotropy | |
| Jonathan Sulc | Components of obesity: genetic architecture, causes, and consequences | |
| Nele Taba | Investigating causal relationships between dietary items and blood metabolites using 2-sample Mendelian randomization | |
| Ninon Mounier | Bayesian approach to increase power in genome-wide association studies of complex traits | |
| 12:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session 2
Tuesday poster authors are at their posters 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| 14:00 | Session 6: Methods | |
| Nicholas B. Larson | Machine learning strategies to improve assay reliability and robustness in non-invasive prenatal screening | |
| Paul R.H.J. Timmers | Genomic survival score percentiles informed by diseases make 10-year distinctions in lifespan | |
| Zhangyi He | A MCMC-based method for estimating selection coefficients from time series DNA data across linked loci | |
| Hannuun Yaacob | Utilizing the information from GWAS data to inform priors in Bayesian fine-mapping association studies | |
| Maarja Lepamets | Genome-wide copy number variant association study reveals several novel disease-associated loci | |
| 15:30 | Tea and Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Session 7: Sequencing | |
| Suzanne M. Leal | Rare variant-family-based score test for quantitative traits | |
| Gaëlle Marenne | On the use of summary statistics from public dataset in rare variant association studies | |
| Ozvan Bocher | How useful are external controls in the search for modifier genes of monogenic diseases | |
| Emil Jørsboe | A genotype likelihood framework for GWAS studies with low depth sequencing data from admixed individuals | |
| Iuliana Ionita-Laza | GenoScan: a genome-wide scan statistic framework for whole-genome sequence data analysis with applications to data from the Simons Simplex Collection | |
| 17:30 | Awards and Farewell | |
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held in the Trinity College Dublin Dining Hall on Monday the 8th of April 2019, following a tour of the Book of Kells in the Old Library.