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PRESENTATION OUTLINE: Adaptation of a parallel Random Jungle (RJ) algorithm empowered by Coarse Grain Parallel computing for Cloud environment for Genome-Wide Association Studies(GWAS).
Maria Pospelova School of Computer Science Carleton University Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 maria.pospelova@carleton.ca March 17, 2014
1 GWAS
- What is GWAS
- Why GWAS important: applications
- Personalized medicine
- How GWAS conducted
2 SNP
- What are SNPs
- How are they collected
- What is the meaning on SNP correlations
- fourth thing
3 Challenges of GWAS
- Data set size
- Dependence of variables: amplification and masking effects: epistasis
- ”Genetic hitchhiking”
- Rare variations
- Sample size
- Missing variables: incomplete data sets