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The Department of and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Distinguished Guest Lecture Series

Rafael A. Irizarry, Ph.D.

Bump hunting in the Cancer Epigenome

Epigenetics is the study of nonsequence-based changes, such as DNA methylation, heritable during cell division. I will start the talk with a short tutorial on epigenetics and DNA methylation. I will describe new challenges for statisticians related to the existing field of bump hunting. I will describe the important role modern statistical techniques play in finding regions of the genome that are consistently different between disease and normal groups using both microarray and next-generation sequencing data. I will also describe the batch effect and how we deal with it. Finally, I will present some interesting Biological results related to development and cancer.

Date: 11/7/12, 11am to 12pm
Time: 11/7/12, 11am to 12pm
Location: FCT2.4142 Room B
Format: Lecture
Facilitator: Roel Verhaak
Speaker: Rafael Irizarry
Speaker Bio: Rafael A. Irizarry, Ph.D. Professor, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
Contact: Teresa Gonzales - 30299 - teresa.gonzales@mdanderson.org

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