Previous ASHG Talks & Titles

2024 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

November 5-9, 2024, in Denver, Colorado.

ASHG Talks

Yujie Zhao. “Pleiotropic heritability quantifies the shared genetic variance of common diseases.” Platform Talk. Friday, November 8th, 10:45am, Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 2&3, Presenter 005.

Javier Maravall Lopez. “Fine-mapped insertions and deletions disproportionately impact 78 diseases and complex traits.” Platform Talk. Saturday, November 9th, 8:00am, Colorado Convention Center, Room 501, Session 87.

ASHG Posters

Xilin Jiang. “Distinguishing environmental variance from measurement noise in plasma protein levels.” Poster #6030T on Thursday, November 7th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.

Benjamin Strober. “Estimating the proportion of disease heritability mediated by molecular traits.” Poster #6034T on Thursday, November 7th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.

Buu Truong. “Polygenic disease association of individual cells in single-cell ATAC-seq data.” Poster #6060F on Friday, November 8th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.

Chaimaa Fadil. “Context-dependent proportional amplification of genetic and environmental effects on gene expression.” Poster #6017F on Friday, November 8th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.

Elizabeth Dorans. “Linking regulatory variants to target genes by integrating single-cell multiome methods and genomic distance.” Poster #6052F on Friday, November 8th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.

Gaspard Kerner. “Tissue-specific epigenomic profiles inform pleiotropic partitioning of disease loci.” Poster #4142F on Friday, November 8th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.

Jordan Rossen. “Functional components of heritability in admixed African-ancestry All of Us whole- genome sequencing data.” Poster #4063F on Friday, November 8th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit and Poster Hall, Upper Level.



2023 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

November 1-5, 2023, in Washington, DC

ASHG Talks

Jordan Rossen. “MultiSuSiE improves multi-ancestry fine-mapping in All of Us whole-genome sequencing data.” Platform Talk. Thursday, November 2nd, 8:30am, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C, Level 3, Session 010.

Arun Durvasula. “Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank.” Platform Talk. Thursday, November 2nd, 10:45am, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 146B, Level 1, Session 020.

Ben Strober. “Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.” Platform Talk. Saturday, November 4th, 1:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C, Level 3, Session 107.

Gaspard Kerner (with previous mentor Lluis Quintana-Murci). “Antagonistic selection of infectious and non-infectious immune-mediated disorders revealed by vertical pleiotropy.” Plenary Talk. Saturday, November 4th, 6:20pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom ABC, Level 3, Session 127.

ASHG Posters

Elizabeth Dorans. “An integrative strategy to link regulatory elements from disease GWAS to genes using single-cell multimode data.” Poster #1027 on Thursday, November 2nd, 3:00 – 5:00pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB.

Robert Warmerdam (with primary mentor Lude Franke). “eQTLGen phase 2: Genome-wide trans-eQTL analysis in blood in over 35,000 individuals provides insight into the genetic architecture of molecular traits.” Poster #1093 on Thursday, November 2nd, 3:00 – 5:00pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB.

Chaimaa Fadil (with rotation mentor Joel Hirschhorn). “Combining GWAS and tissue-specific multiomic data to identify candidate human height genes.” Poster #1392 on Saturday, November 4th, 2:15 – 4:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Buu Truong (with co-mentor Liming Liang). “Characterizing the genetic architecture of comprehensive inflammatory markers and their associations with obesity.” Poster #1047 on Saturday, November 4th, 2:15 – 4:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB.

Martin Zhang. “Estimating SNP-pair affect correlations across functional annotations.” Poster #4135 on Saturday, November 4th, 2:15 – 4:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.



2022 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 25-29, 2022, in Los Angeles, California

ASHG Talks

Tiffany Amariuta. “Modeling tissue and gene co-regulation reveals causal tissues for disease.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 28th, 11:15am, Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 502, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 381.

Huwenbo Shi (with co-first author Martin Zhang). “Cell-type transcriptome-wide association studies and fine-mapping via deconvolution using single-cell RNA-seq.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 28th, 11:45am, Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 431.

Xilin Jiang. “Age-dependent topic modelling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk.” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 26th, 2:00pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Concourse Hall F, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 183.

Ben Strober. “Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.” Poster Talk. Tuesday, October 25th, 7:21pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 633P.

Kushal Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing genes and gene programs for disease by integrating genetic and perturbation data.” Poster Talk. Tuesday, October 25th, 7:33pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 612P.

ASHG Posters

Ben Strober. “Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.” Poster #2585 on Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Arun Durvasula. “Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank.” Poster #3373 on Thursday, October 27th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Kushal Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing genes and gene programs for disease by integrating genetic and perturbation data.” Poster #1596 on Thursday, October 27th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Jordan Rossen. “MultiSuSie: Multi-population fine-mapping under the sum of single effects model.” Poster #3523 on Thursday, October 27th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building.



2021 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 18-22, 2021

ASHG Talks

Tiffany Amariuta. “Modeling tissue co-regulation to quantify tissue-specific contributions to disease heritability.” Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 5:30pm. Session 020. *This presentation was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Sam Kim. “Leveraging single-cell ATAC-seq to identify disease-critical fetal and adult brain type cells.” Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 6:30pm. Session 020.

Ben Strober (with previous mentor Alexis Battle). “Uncovering context-specific genetic regulation of gene expression from single-cell RNA-sequencing using latent-factor models”. Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 6:45pm. Session 020.

Alkes L. Price (project led by Karthik Jagadeesh & Kushal K. Dey). “Identifying disease-critical cell types and cellular processes across the human body by integration of single-cell profiles and human genetics.” Platform talk. Wednesday, October 20th, 11:45am. Session 026.

Richard Border (with primary mentor Noah Zaitlen). “Widespread evidence of systematic bias in estimates of genetic correlation due to assortative mating”. Plenary talk. Wednesday, October 20th, 1:40pm. Session 027. *This presentation was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

ASHG Posters

Wouter Peyrot. “Distinguishing different psychiatric disorders using polygenic prediction.” Poster #2695 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. This work was also presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2021.

Huwenbo Shi (with co-first author Martin Jinye Zhang). “Transcriptome-wide association studies and fine-mapping at cell-type resolution.” Poster #3124 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Kushal K. Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing disease genes by integrating GWAS and WES with gene-level functional and perturbation data.” Poster #3184 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Martin Jinye Zhang (with co-first author Kangcheng Hou). “Polygenic enrichment distinguishes disease associations of individual cells in single-cell RNA-seq data.” Poster #3505 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award. This poster was also selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Karthik Jagadeesh (with co-first author Kushal K. Dey). “Dynamic cell-type-specific eQTL from single-cell RNA-seq of inflamed and non-inflamed colon elucidate biological mechanisms of ulcerative colitis.” Poster #3816 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Steven Gazal. “Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to pinpoint disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity.” Poster #3878 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. This work was also presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2021.



2020 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 27-30, 2020

ASHG Talks

Sam Kim. “Improving the informativeness of Mendelian disease-derived pathogenicity scores for common disease using AnnotBoost.” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 28th, 11:00am, Session 013.

Omer Weissbrod. “Leveraging fine-mapping and non-European training data to improve trans-ethnic polygenic risk scores.” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 28th, 11:45am, Session 017. *This presentation was selected for a 2020 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

ASHG Posters

Margaux Hujoel. “Incorporating family history of disease improves polygenic risk scores in diverse populations.” Poster #2709 on Monday, October 26th. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Tiffany Amariuta with former mentor Soumya Raychaudhuri. “Single cell heterogeneity in regulatory element accessibility among regulatory T cells reveals differential heritability enrichments.” Poster #2951 on Monday, October 26th.

Karthik Jagadeesh/Kushal Dey. “Identifying disease-critical cell types and programs using single-cell RNA-seq and enhancer-gene architectures.” Poster #3447 on Monday, October 26th. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Huwenbo Shi. “Prioritizing causal genes from co-regulated genes in transcriptome-wide association studies.” Poster #3462 on Monday, October 26th.

Kushal Dey. “SNP-to-gene linking strategies elucidate enhancer-driven and expression-mediated autoimmune disease architectures.” Poster #3468 on Monday, October 26th.

Steven Gazal. “Evaluating and combining strategies linking disease-associated SNPs to disease genes.” Poster #3813 on Monday, October 26th.

Wouter Peyrot. “Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS.” Poster #3864 on Monday, October 26th. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. *This work was also presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2020 and received the Early Career Investigator Oral Presentation Award.

Katie Siewert. “Leveraging gene co-expression to identify gene sets enriched for disease heritability.” Poster #3888 on Monday, October 26th.

Martin Jinye Zhang. “Quantifying gene level directional effects in UK Biobank whole exome sequencing data.” Poster #3928 on Monday, October 26th.



2019 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 15-19, 2019, in Houston, Texas

ASHG Talks

Huwenbo Shi. “Population-specific causal disease effect sizes at loci impacted by negative selection.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 17th, 11:00am, George R. Brown Convention Center, Room 360D, Level 3, Session 054.

Farhad Hormozdiari/Omer Weissbrod. “Functionally-informed fine-mapping improves polygenic localization of complex trait heritability.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 17th, 4:15pm, George R. Brown Convention Center, Room 371A, Level 3, Session 066.

Luke O’Connor. “Defining and characterizing pleiotropy across 57 common diseases and complex traits.” Poster Talks I. Tuesday, October 15th, 7:25pm, George R. Brown Convention Center, Room 360D, Level 3.

ASHG Posters

Kushal Dey. “Evaluating the informativeness of variant-level deep learning annotations for human disease.” Poster #1683 on Wednesday, October 16th, 2:00-3:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center.

Martin Zhang with former mentor James Zou. “AdaFDR: a Fast, Powerful and Covariate-Adaptive Approach to Multiple Hypothesis Testing.” Poster #1713 on Wednesday, October 16th, 2:00-3:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center.

Steven Gazal. “Optimal strategies for linking disease-associated SNPs to genes.” Poster #3252 on Wednesday, October 16th, 3:00-4:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center.

Margaux Hujoel. “Combining case-control status and family history of disease increases association power.” Poster #3006 on Wednesday, October 16th, 3:00-4:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Armin Schoech. “Estimating the autocorrelation of causal minor allele effect sizes as a function of genomic distance.” Poster #3054 on Wednesday, October 16th, 3:00-4:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. 

Luke O’Connor. “Defining and characterizing pleiotropy across 57 diseases and complex traits.” Poster #3019 on Thursday, October 17th, 2:00-3:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Wouter Peyrot. “Case-case GWAS of two different disorders using case-control summary statistics.” Poster #3052 on Thursday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center. This work will also be presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2019.

Sam Kim. “Improving the informativeness of Mendelian disease pathogenicity scores for common diseases and complex traits.” Poster #1655 on Friday, October 18th, 1:00-2:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. 

Bryce van de Geijn. “Jointly modeling allele-specific and total expression to identify cis-acting expression outliers in humans.” Poster #3353 on Friday, October 18th, 1:00-2:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center.

Katie Siewert with former mentor Ben Voight. “Standardized statistics to detect balancing selection utilizing substitution data.” Poster #2384 on Friday, October 18th, 2:00-3:00pm, George R. Brown Convention Center.



2018 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 16-20, 2018, in San Diego, California

ASHG Talks

Omer Weissbrod.“Polygenic localization of disease heritability using functional annotations” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 17th, 5:00pm, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6A, Upper Level, Session 027

Margaux Hujoel. “Disease heritability enrichment of regulatory elements is concentrated in elements with ancient sequence age and conserved function across species.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 19th, 9:45am, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6A, Upper Level, Session 068.  *This presentation was selected for a 2018 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Alkes Price. “Impact of negative selection on common variant disease architectures.” Invited Talk. Friday, October 19th, 12:00pm-12:30pm, San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20BC, Upper Level, Session 078.

ASHG Posters

Luke O’Connor. “Polygenicity varies with allele frequency and functional category due to negative selection.” Poster #3528 on Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Alkes Price.“Reconciling S-LDSC and LDAK models and functional enrichment estimates.” Poster #3432 on Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center.

Huwenbo Shi with former mentor Bogdan Pasaniuc.“Joint analysis of GWAS summary statistics in East Asians and Europeans provides insights into population-specific and shared causal variants of complex traits.” Poster #3558 on Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Wouter Peyrot with former mentor Naomi Wray.“Environmental factors are often heritable. Does this bias polygenic gene-by-environment interaction analyses?” Poster #3355 on Thursday, October 18th, 2:00-3:00pm, San Diego Convention Center

Sam Kim. “Leveraging biological pathways and gene networks to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits.”Poster #3430 on Thursday, October 18th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center

Bryce van de Geijn. “Detection and replication of rare variant driven gene expression outliers via joint modeling of total and allele-specific expression.”Poster #2002 on Thursday, October 18th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center

Carla Marquez Luna. “Leveraging functional enrichment improves polygenic prediction accuracy.” Poster #3401 on Friday, October 19th, 2:00-3:00pm, San Diego Convention Center

Steven Gazal. “Low-frequency variant functional architectures reveal strength of negative selection across coding and non-coding annotations.”Poster #2699 on Friday, October 19th, 2:00-3:00pm, San Diego Convention Center

Farhad Hormozdiari. “Contribution of transposable elements to disease and complex trait heritability.”Poster #2570 on Friday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center

Armin Schoech. “Estimating the autocorrelation of causal SNP effect size magnitudes as a function of genomic distance.”Poster #3404 on Friday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center



2017 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 17-21, 2017, in Orlando, Florida

ASHG Talks

Po-Ru Loh. “An atlas of 8,342 mosaic structural variants reveals genetic drivers of clonal hematopoiesis.” Plenary Talk. Tuesday, October 17th, 5:50pm, South Hall B, Level 1. *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Award (top 6 of >3,000 abstracts).

 Yakir Reshef. “Quantifying directional effects of transcription factor binding on polygenic disease risk using GWAS summary statistics.” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 18th, 11:15am, Orange County Convention Center, Room 230 C, Level 2.

Omer Weissbrod with former mentor Eran Segal. “Biome-explainability: Quantifying microbiome-phenotype associations while accounting for host genetics.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 9:15am, Orange County Convention Center, Room 310A, Level 3

Luke O’Connor. “Distinguishing genetic correlation from causation among 55 complex traits” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 10:15am, Room 230G. *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Xuanyao Liu. “Identifying complex traits under polygenic selection in the UK Biobank.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 11:00 am, Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Room 230G Level 2  *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Pier Palamara. “High-throughput inference of pairwise coalescent times identifies signals of selection and enriched disease heritability.” Platform Talk. Thursday, October 19th, 11:30 AM, Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Room 230G Level 2 *This presentation was selected for a 2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award. *This work will also be presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2017.

Farhad Hormozdiari. “Leveraging molecular QTL to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 20th, 10:30 AM, Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Room 330C, Level 3

ASHG Posters

Steven Gazal. “Partitioning heritability of low-frequency variants reveals relative strength of negative selection across functional annotations”Poster Talk #2347W on Tuesday, October 17th, 7:15-9:15 pm Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center and poster presentation on Wednesday, October 18th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Armin Schoech. “Quantification of MAF-dependent architectures in 14 UK Biobank traits reveals strength of genome-wide negative selection.” Wednesday, October 18th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Level 1

Bryce van de Geijn. “Annotations that capture tissue specific transcription factor binding explain a large fraction of disease heritability.”Wednesday, October 18th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Level 1

Hilary Finucane. “Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types.”Thursday, October 19th, 2pm, Exhibit Hall, 2951T Level 1, Convention Center

Carla Marquez Luna. “Modeling functional enrichment improves polygenic prediction accuracy in UK Biobank and 23andMe data sets” Thursday, October 19th, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center

Gleb Kichaev. “Leveraging polygenic functional enrichment to improve GWAS power” Thursday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall, Level 1, Convention Center



2016 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 18-22, 2016, in Vancouver, Canada

ASHG Talks

Hilary Finucane. “Extracting biological insight from heritability analysis.” Invited talk. Wednesday, October 19th, 12:00pm. West Building Room 211.

Sasha Gusev. “Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights.” Platform talk. Thursday, October 20th, 10:15am. West Building Room 302.

Kevin Galinsky. “Population structure of UK Biobank and ancient Eurasians reveals adaptation at genes influencing blood pressure.” Platform talk. Friday, October 21st, 9:30am. West Building Room 109.
*This presentation was selected for a 2016 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Award (top 6 of >3,000 abstracts).

ASHG Posters

Xuanyao Liu. “Dissecting the functional architecture of local and distal gene expression regulation in multiple human tissues.” Poster talk #2148F. Tuesday, October 18th, 7:00-9:00pm, West Building Room 119.

Carla Marquez Luna. “Multi-ethnic polygenic risk scores improve risk prediction in diverse populations.” Poster #589W. Wednesday, October 19th, 2:00-3:00pm.

Yakir Reshef. “Quantifying directional effects of transcription factor binding on polygenic disease risk using GWAS summary statistics.” Poster #376W. Wednesday, October 19th, 3:00-4:00pm.

Gaurav Bhatia. “Correcting subtle stratification in summary association statistics.” Poster #545T. Thursday, October 20th, 2:00-3:00pm.

Pier Palamara. “Leveraging deep genealogical structure to estimate the phenotypic contribution of rare variants.” Poster #1931T. Thursday, October 20th, 2:00-3:00pm.
*This work was also presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2016

Armin Schoech. “Estimating the frequency dependence of SNP effect sizes in human complex traits.” Poster #518T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.

Hilary Finucane. “Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types.” Poster #1628T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.
*This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Luke O’Connor. “Steady-state gene expression explains 5-15% of heritability for many complex traits.” Poster #1634T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.

Bryce van de Geijn. “Genetic variants underlying histone modifications explain a large fraction of autoimmune disease heritability.” Poster #1994T. Thursday, October 20th, 3:00-4:00pm.

Po-Ru Loh. “Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel.” Poster #564F. Friday, October 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.

Steven Gazal. “LD-dependent architecture of human complex traits reveals action of negative selection.” Poster #1644F. Friday, October 21st, 3:00-4:00pm.
*This work was also presented as a platform talk at GCD 2016

2015 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 6-10, 2015, in Baltimore, MD.

Alkes Price. “Fully powered polygenic prediction using summary statistics.” Invited talk. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 11:00am. Room 316, Level 3.

Sasha Gusev. “Large-scale transcriptome-wide association study identifies new risk genes for obesity-related traits.” Platform talk #11. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 2:30pm. Ballroom III, Level 4.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Award (top 6 of >3,000 abstracts).

Po-Ru Loh. “Contrasting regional architectures of schizophrenia and other complex diseases using fast variance components analysis.” Platform talk #38. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 3:15pm. Room 316, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Gaurav Bhatia. “Haplotypes of common SNPs explain a large fraction of the missing heritability of complex traits.” Platform talk #196. Friday, Oct. 9th, 2:30pm. Ballroom I, Level 4.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Kevin Galinsky. “Population differentiation analysis of 54,734 European Americans reveals independent evolution of ADH1B gene in Europe and East Asia.” Platform talk #352. Saturday, Oct. 10th, 10:45am.  Room 309, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Tris Hayeck. “Mixed Model Association with Family-Biased Case-Control Ascertainment.” Platform talk #346. Saturday, Oct. 10th, 11:15am. Room 307, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Pier Palamara. “Leveraging distant relatedness to quantify human mutation and gene conversion rates.” Platform talk #354. Saturday, Oct. 10th, 11:15am. Room 309, Level 3.
*This presentation was selected for a 2015 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Hilary Finucane. “Finding and characterizing latent genetic sub-structure for imprecisely defined phenotypes.” Poster #1365W. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 5:00-6:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Level 1.

Luke O’Connor. “Estimating Components of Disease Heritability Explained by Gene Expression.” Poster #1867W. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 5:00-6:00pm. Exhibit Hall, Level 1.
*This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice (top 10% of poster abstracts).

Xuanyao Liu. “Functional partitioning of local and distal gene expression regulation in multiple human tissues.” Poster #3179F. Friday, Oct. 9th, 10:45-11:45am. Exhibit Hall, Level 1.