Parallel Sessions
Sunday, 17 April, 2016 - 16:00 to 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
