ims.18

Sponsor(s): IMS

Session Time: 8:30-10:20 Wednesday

Estimated Audience Size: 125-175

A/V Request: None

Session Title: Statistics and Genetics

Theme Session: No $\quad$ Applied Session: Yes

Organizer: McPeek, Mary Sara  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 0 minutes First Speaker - 35 minutes Second Speaker - 35 minutes Third Speaker - 35 minutes Discussant - none Floor Discusion - 5 minutes

Chair: McPeek, Mary Sara  

1. Mapping disease genes using distantly related individuals $\quad$ Feingold, Eleanor  

$\quad$ Durham, L. Kathryn  

2. Bayesian haplotype analysis for linkage disequilibrium $\quad$ Liu, Jun  

$\quad$ Teng, Jun  

$\quad$ Risch, Neil  

3. Assessing linkage disequilibrium by the decay-of-haplotype-sharing method $\quad$ McPeek, Mary Sara  

$\quad$ Strahs, Andrew  

$\quad$ DiRienzo, Anna  

$\quad$ Hall, Diana  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: None