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Posted on June 15, 2004 at 9:10 a.m. |
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David Siegmund, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of statistics at Stanford University will present two talks at UAB on genetic linkage, the tendency of genes to be inherited together because of their location near one another on the same chromosome. The Section on Statistical Genetics (SSG) in the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at UAB will host the talks as part of the SSG lecture series. |
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Topic: “Linkage Analysis of Quantitative-Trait Loci” Topic: “Model Selection in Linkage Analysis” |
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UAB Ryals Public Health Building |
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Prior to being named chair of the department of statistics at Stanford, Siegmund was a visiting scholar for one year at the University of Cambridge. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore and as associate editor of Bernoulli. Among his numerous honors, Siegmund is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and he is winner the Wilks Medal of the American Statistical Association. His professional memberships include the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society, the American Society of Human Genetics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. |
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Linked Genes and What They Mean Topic of UAB Public Health Talks
David Siegmund, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of statistics at Stanford University will present two talks at UAB on genetic linkage, the tendency of genes to be inherited together because of their location near one another on the same chromosome.