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Michael Edge, University of Southern California
January 29 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Using gene genealogies to understand complex traits
Michael Edge, Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology at University of Southern California
Abstract
Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) use trees to relate variation in a sample of genomes to the genealogical sources of that variation. Recent computational advances have enabled the largest-scale ARG estimates to date, raising the possibility of ARG-based approaches to any data analysis that takes genetic variation as input. In this talk, I will discuss ways in which estimated ARGs can interface with the study of complex traits. These projects highlight the ARG—and the marginal trees it encodes—as a common language for relating evolutionary and statistical genetics.
Join us on Monday, January 29 at 1:30 PM in Stephens Room (3503 Thomas Hall) and ZOOM for the Genetics and Genomics Seminar Series. Link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/99465646573?pwd=SWdOMkQwV2xpRXdJanRsODZiOWFsQT09
If you are interested with meeting with Michael Edge, please contact host Rafael Guerrero (rfguerre@ncsu.edu)