Programme

Tuesday, March 15
11:30 a.m.	Registration -St. Anne's College
12:30 p.m.	Lunch -St. Anne's College
1:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m	Session I - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Introduction and Welcome - Peter Donnelly David Altshuler Experimental Design Issues in the HapMap Project Aravinda Chakravarti HapMap: Current State of the Project Augustine Kong Utilization of HapMap Data in Iceland
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.	Session II - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Richard Gibbs QA/QC in the International HapMap Project Mark Daly Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium Across the Human Genome David Cox Whole-Genome Patterns of Common DNA Variation in Three Human Populations
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.	Reception and Poster Session - Oxford University Museum of Natural History Parks Road
Wednesday, March 16
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Session I - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Stephen Sherry SNP Discovery and SNP Resources Andrew Clark Comparing Frequency Spectra of HapMap and Perlegen Data Sets Nick Patterson Ascertainment Bias and the Haplotype Map John Belmont Organization of Linkage Disequilibrium Characterized by the Genotypic Correlation
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Session II - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Mark McCarthy Using High-Density Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping to Map Complex Trait Susceptibility Genes: Chromosome 1q and Diabetes Gabor Marth A Coalescent Computational Platform to Predict Strength of Association for Clinical Samples Jonathan Marchini A Novel Bayesian Approach to Localising Disease Genes Shaun Purcell Sampling Strategies for Genome-Wide Association Analysis: Affected Parent and Offspring Trios Can Provide Greater Power Than a Case-Control Approach
12:40 p.m.	Lunch -St. Anne's College
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m	Session III - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	David Clayton Haplotype Tags, Phase, and the Detection of Association in the Presence of a Strong Dominance Component Roman Yelensky The Value of Multi-Marker Haplotypes in Genome-Wide Disease Mapping Studies Lon Cardon Genome-Wide Strategies for Detecting Multiple Loci Influencing Complex Diseases Philip Awadalla Lessons Learned from the Human HapMap Project: The Malaria HapMap
3:15 p.m.	Break and Walking Tours, to begin at 3:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.	Pre-dinner drinks followed by a Conference Dinner - St. Anne's College
Thursday, March 17
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Session I - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Paul de Bakker The Performance of Tag SNPs Within and Across Populations Eleftheria Zeggini The Effect of Sample Size on Tagging SNP Performance and Consequences for Complex Disease Gene Mapping Steve Qin An Efficient Exhaustive Search Algorithm for Tag SNP Selection Based on Linkage Disequilibrium Newton Morton Linkage Disequilibrium Maps and Association Mapping
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Session II - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Gil McVean Fine-Scale Patterns of Recombination in the Human Genome Matthew Stephens Estimating Rates of Gene Conversion and Crossover from Population Data Simon Myers Comparison of Fine-Scale Recombination Rates in Human and Chimpanzee Agnar Helgason A Common Inversion Conferring Selective Advantage in Europeans
12:40 p.m.	Lunch -St. Anne's College
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m	Session III - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Rasmus Nielson Detecting Selection from Large-Scale SNP Data Sets Jonathan Pritchard Detecting Partial Selective Sweeps from SNP Data Chris Spencer The Causes of Human Diversity
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m	Session IV - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Manolis Dermitzakis Signature of Selective Constraint Around Conserved Non-Coding Sequences in the Human Genome Goncalo Abecasis To be determined Jonathan Sebat Analysis of Large-Scale Copy Number Polymorphism in the Human Genome Using Representational Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis Steve McCarroll Using HapMap Data to Identify Structural Polymorphisms in the Human Genome Ewan Birney The Ensembl Variation Database
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.	Reception and Poster Session - St. Anne's College
Friday, March 18
9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Session I - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Simon Tavare' To be determined Vivian Cheung Analysis of Variation in Human Gene Expression Using HapMap Data Barbara Stranger Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Gene Expression Variation on the Human Genome
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Session II - Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
	Cristen Willer Comparison of Linkage Disequilibrium in HapMap Caucasians and 1,400 Finnish Individuals Across an 18Mb Region of Chromosome 14 Ranjan Deka Linkage Disequilibrium Sharing Between Samoan and HapMap Populations: An Evaluation of Utility of the HapMap Project in Genome-Wide Association Study in an Isolated Population Jung-Joo Hwang Fine-Scale Mapping of Encode Regions in the Korean Population Juame Bertranpetit The Portability of Haplotype Tagging SNPs: A Worldwide Survey Eduardo Tarazona-Santos Using SNP500 Hispanic Genetic Diversity to Infer the Haplotype Structure of Native Americans Closing Discussion Convener: David Altshuler
12:50 p.m.-2:00 p.m	Lunch and Adjourn-St. Anne's College