by
Juni Palmgren(Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet)
→
Europe/Stockholm
Oskar Klein auditorium
Oskar Klein auditorium
Description
I will give examples of research at the Department of Medical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics (MEB) at Karolinska Institutet, through (i) a recent
GenomeWide Association Scan (GWAS) for prostate cancer, (iii) a three
state illness-death frailty model for dementia and death in Swedish twins
and (iii) plans for LifeGene, a Swedish Population Project on Lifestyle,
Genomics and Health.
References:
(i) Amundadottir et al. A common variant associated with prostate cancer
in European and African Populations. Nature Genetics, June 2006;6:652-8.
(ii) Ripatti S, Gatz M, Pedersen NL, Palmgren J: A Three-State Frailty
Model for Age at Onset of Dementia and Death in Swedish Twins. Genet
Epidemiology 2003;24:139-149.
(iii) www.lifegene.org
