IGES Journal Club

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Next Journal Club Meeting

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
11 am (EST), 8 am (PST) and 5 pm (CET)

The sequence kernel association test for multicategorical outcomes
Genet Epidemiol. 2023 Sep;47(6):432-449)

Read Article Here.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gepi.22527


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(https://msm-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/qy97VCFWSfunHZriY6__DQ)


Bio: Zhiwen (Owen) Jiang is a
4th year Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Owen’s research primarily focuses on representation learning for neuroimages, large-scale data integration, and genome-wise association analysis.

 


 

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