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Polygenic Prediction and its Application in Social Science Conference

Center for Economic and Social Research

University of Southern California

April 13 and 14, 2017 (Vineyard Room)

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AGENDA

Thursday, April 13, 2017

 

SESSION 1:  POLYGENIC SCORES

9:00-9:20 AM

9:20-9:40 AM

9:40-10:00 AM

(Organizers)

Titus Galama, CESR, USC

Dan Benjamin, CESR, USC

David Cesarini, New York University

Aysu Okbay, Free University Amsterdam

All

10:15-10:35 AM

10:35-10:55 AM

10:55-11:15 AM

Robbee Wedow, University of Colorado Boulder

Meghan Zacher, Harvard University

All

11:30-11:50 AM

11:50-12:10 PM

12:10-12:30 PM

Sven Oskarsson, Uppsala University

Patrick Turley, Broad Institute

All

Lunch (12:30-1:30 PM)

 

SESSION 4:  NEW GWAS AND POLYGENIC SCORES II

1:30-1:50 PM

1:50-2:10 PM

2:10-2:30 PM

GWAS of Fertility

MTAG: Depression, Subjective Well-Being, and Neuroticism

Discussion

Melinda Mills, Oxford University

Raymond Walters, Broad Institute

All

Break (2:30-2:45 PM)

 

SESSION 5:  POLYGENIC SCORES AND BEHAVIOR I

2:45-3:05 PM

3:05-3:25 PM

3:25-3:45 PM

Sociogenomic Analysis of Social Attainment and Social Mobility

Genes, Education, and Voter Turnout

Discussion

Dan Belsky, Duke University

Ben Domingue, Stanford University

Chris Dawes, New York University

All

4:00-4:20 PM

4:20-4:40 PM

4:40-5:00 PM

Riccardo Marioni, University of Edinburgh

Jonathan Beauchamp, University of Toronto

All

AGENDA

Friday, April 14, 2017

 

SESSION 7:  MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION

8:30-8:50 AM

8:50-9:10 AM

9:10-9:30 AM

Taavi Tillmann, University College London

George Davey Smith, University of Bristol

All

9:45-10:05 AM

10:05-10:25 AM

10:25-10:45 AM

10:45-11:15 AM

Laura Bierut, Washington University, St. Louis

Kevin Thom, New York University

Nick Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University

Lauren Schmitz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

All

Lunch (11:15-12:30 PM)

General Discussion (12:30-1:30 PM)

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