Séances en parallèle
Dimanche, 17 avril, 2016 - 16:00 - 18:00
Chair

Vardit Ravitsky
University of Montreal
GE3LS
GE3LS

Impact of Genetic Discrimination and Recommendations for Genetic Non-Discrimination Protection
CEO HSC, Chair Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness, Huntington Society of Canada (HSC)

Genetic discrimination in Canada: Evidence, Practice & Policy
Scientist & Assistant Professor, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St.Michael's Hospital & University of Toronto

Why policy-making is like sausage-making, and why scientists shouldn’t shy away!
Executive Director, Platforms, Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions

Unsolved Challenges of Clinical Whole-exome Sequencing: A Systematic Literature Review of End-users’ Views
PhD Student, Human Genetics, McGill University
Poster: 49
Human and Statistical Genetics
GWAs:eQTLS - Finding Regulatory Variants and Missing Heritability

Systems genetics approach to unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying variations in lung function
Emeritus Professor, Medicine, University of British Columbia

Epigenome-wide Association Studies of Circulating Lipid Levels Identify Tissue- independent Biomarkers for Cardiometabolic Risk
PhD Candidate, Human Genetics , McGill University
Poster: 68

Association Analysis of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and Genome-wide Genetic Variants Using a New Local False Discovery Rate (LFDR) Method
MSc Student, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
Poster: 29