Thursday, May 19
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8:00 am – 2:00 pm
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Registration
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2:00 – 2:20 pm
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Opening Ceremony
Guest-of-Honor: TBA
Conference Organizers:
Xuejun Zhang, President , Anhui Medical University, China
Myles Axton, Chief Editor, Nature Genetics, USA
Jianjun Liu, Anhui Medical University
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2:20 – 3:00 pm
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“Why did you not send my paper to review”
– An Editor’s perspective of GWAS standards and GWAS problems
Myles Axton
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3:00 – 6:00 pm
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“Common Variants, Common Problems” workshop, chaired by Myles Axton
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1. Paul de Bakker, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
2. Meredith Yeager, NCI/NIH, USA
3. Kevin Jacobs, NCI/NIH, USA
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6:30 pm
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Reception and Welcome Dinner
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Friday, May 20
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Session 1: Evolution of GWAS 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Chair
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8:30 – 9:10 am
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Augustine Kong, deCOOD
Title: TBA (1000 Genome Project and Finning Mapping)
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9:10 – 9:40 am
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JJ Liu, Anhui Medical University, China and Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Title: Genetic Heterogeneity of Psoriasis Susceptibility
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9:40 – 10:00 am
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Coffee Break
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10:00 – 10:30 am
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Fengyu Zhang, NIMH/NIH, USA
Title: Finding "missing heritability" for complex disorders through GWAS
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10:30 – 11:00 am
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YY Teo, National University of Singapore
Title: TBA (Evolution of GWAS: From Discovery to Fine-Mapping to Translation)
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11:00 – 11:30 am
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Jin Li, Fundan University, China
Title: TBA (can move to Chinese GWAS, if necessary)
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11:30 – 12:30 am
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1hr Roundtable Discussion
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12:30 – 2:00 pm
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Lunch break / Poster Session I
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Session 2: Translational and Clinical Perspective of GWAS 2:00 – 5:30 pm
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Chair
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2:00 – 2:40 pm
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Stephen Chanock, NCI/NIH, USA
Title: TBA
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2:40 – 3:10 pm
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Liming Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China
Title: TBA (Update of the Kadoorie Study)
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3:10 – 3:30 pm
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Coffee Break
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3:30 – 4:00 pm
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Jianfeng Xu, Fudan University, China and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA
Title: Prediction of prostate cancer risk using SNPs identified from GWAS: its clinical utilities in diagnosis and prevention
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4:00 – 4:30 pm
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Xiping Xu, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Title: Translational Medical Research and New Drug Development
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4:30 – 5:30 pm
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1hr Roundtable Discussion
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6:30 pm
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Dinner
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Saturday, May 21
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Session 3: GWAS in Chinese Population 8:30am – 12:00pm
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Chair:
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8:30 – 8:50 am
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Lin He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Title: Progress in GWAS of complex diseases such as schizophrenia in China
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9:50 – 10:10 am
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Xuejun Zhang, Anhui Medical University, China
Title: TBA
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10:10 – 10:30 am
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Dongxin Lin, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China.
Title: Genome-wide association study identifys seven new susceptibility loci for esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma in Chinese population
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10:30 – 10:50 am
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Coffee Break
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10:50 – 11:10 am
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Gangqiao Zhou, (State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, China)
Title: GWAS of HBV-related liver diseases in Chinese population
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11:10 – 11:30 am
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Open
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11:30 – 12: 30 pm
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1hr Roundtable Discussion
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12:30 – 2:00 pm
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Lunch break / Poster Session II
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Session 4: Beyond GWAS 2:00 – 6:30 pm
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Chair:
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2:00 – 2:40 pm
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Anthony J Brookes, University of Leicester, UK
Title: TBA
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2:40 – 3:10 pm
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Li Ying Rui, BGI-Shenzhen, China
Title: Painting the whole picture of genetic landscape of inheritable diseases
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3:10 – 3:30 pm
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Coffee Break
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3:30 – 4:00 pm
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Qi Ming, Zhejiang University, China
Title: The Human Variome Project in China
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4:00 – 4:30 pm
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Open
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4:30 – 5:30 pm
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1hr Roundtable Discussion
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5:30 – 6:30 pm
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Closing Remarks
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6:30 pm
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Dinner
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Saturday, May 22
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Morning: Visit to Anhui Medical University and City Tour
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Afternoon: Trip to Yellow Mountain
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