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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Health Sciences T-739
3:30 to 4:50pm

Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular disease: design, conduct and findings from the CHARGE Consortium.

Nicole L. Glazer, PhD, Epidemiologist, UW, CHRU

Brief bio: Dr. Glazer received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She currently works as a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the UW Cardiovascular Health Research Unit. Her areas of interest include genetics, biomarkers and pharmacoepidemiology. In her post-graduate work she has mostly focused on genome-wide association studies.

Recommended reading:

1. Pearson TA, Manolio TA. How to interpret a genome-wide association study. JAMA. 2008;299:1335-44.
2. Newton-Cheh C, et al. Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study. Nat Genet. 2009;41:399-406.
   
   

 

Light refreshments will be served.

For more information - please contact Ann Vander Stoep, PhD

 

Updated on August 24, 2009