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             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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