Parallel Sessions
Tuesday, 12 June, 2018 - 16:15 to 18:15
Implementing Exomes Data to the Clinic: Cancer Diagnosis and Rare Diseases

Focus on Cancer Diagnosis
Director of Research and Professor, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University

Patient and system impacts of genomic sequencing in pediatrics
Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, University of Toronto

TRPV4, KRAS, and FGFR1 Gain-of-function Mutations Drive Giant Cell Lesions of the Jaw
PhD Candidate, Human Genetics, McGill University
Poster: 16

Enrichment of Rare Protein Truncating Variants in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Postdoctoral research fellow, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Poster: 1
Future of GWAS “Do we have too many hits?”

The Omnigenic model for complex traits and disease
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

Multiple GWAS Hits Inform Disease Mechanisms
University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children

GWAS: back to the future
Associate Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University

Genome Wide Meta-analysis of Parent-of-origin Effects of Asthma, Atopy and Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Four Cohorts
University of British Columbia
Poster: 14

Revealing Old and New Population Structures in Large Cohorts
PhD Student, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University
Poster: 22