Quantitative genetics journal club 2015-2016

  • Mairead Lesley Bermingham (Speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Presented the paper 'Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics' by Finucane et al., 2015. Nature Genetics 47, 1228–1235.
Period25 Nov 2015
Event typeConference
LocationEdinburgh, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

  • LD score regression
  • Functional elements
  • cell type–specific elements
  • 17 complex diseases and traits
  • Heritability
  • Conserved regions
  • FANTOM5 enhancers
  • Functional genomics
  • Genome-wide association studies
  • Polygenic risk score