Awards

 

Year

Leadership Award

Best Paper in Genetic Epidemiology
(during previous year)

James V. Neel Young Investigator Award
for Best Platform Presentation at IGES Meeting by a Young Investigator (post-doc)

Roger W. Williams Award
for Best Platform Presentation at IGES Meeting by a Graduate Student (pre-doc)

2009
Kahuku, Hawaii - USA
Laura Almasy
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
San Antonio, TX - USA
(none)Bingshan Li
Center for Statistical Genetics
Dept. of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Dajiang J. Liu
Rice University

2008
St. Louis, Missouri - USA

Daniel Schaid
Division of Biostatistics
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN - USA
Brian L. Browning and Sharon R. Browning
Efficient multilocus association testing for whole genome association studies using localized haplotype clustering
Genetic Epidemiology 31, 365-375, 2007

Juan Lewinger
University of Southern California
Daniel Schwarz
Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics
University at Lübeck
2007
York, England
Ellen Wijsman
University of Washington
Seattle, WA - USA
DL Nicolae
Testing Untyped Alleles (TUNA) - Applications to Genome-wide Association Studies
Genetic Epidemiology 30, 718-727, 2006
Inke Koenig
Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics
University at Lübeck
Ioanna Tachmazidou
Imperial College
London, UK
2006
St. Petersburg, FL - USA
Joan Bailey-Wilson
NHGRI
Bethesda, MD - USA
Tao Wang and Robert Elston.
Two Level Haseman-Elston Regression for General Pedigree Data Analysis.
Genetic Epidemiology 29, 12-22, 2005
Evanie Rampersaud
University of Maryland
Yan Li
University of Chicago
2005
Park City, UT-USA
Mike Province
Washington U St. Louis, MO-USA
Steve Horvath, Xin Xu, Stephen L. Lake, Edwin K. Silverman, Scott T. Weiss, Nan M. Laird.
Family-based tests for associating haplotypes with general phenotype data: Application to asthma genetics. Genet Epidemiol. 2004, 26:61-69

Hui- Ju Tsai et al. Comparison of methods for estimating admixture background and control for population stratification confounding in admixed populations

Claire Bardel et al. Identification of disease susceptibility loci using a co-evolution measure and haplotype phylogenies

2004
Noordwijkerhout-The Netherlands

(none)
W. James Gauderman Candidate gene association analysis for a quantitative trait, using parent-offspring trios
Genetic Epidemiology
2003, 25: 327-338.

Mark M Iles. Unbiased estimation of htSNP efficacy

Mathew Barber and Heather Cordell. A multilocus regression based test of linkage for affected-sib-pair families with known parental genotypes.

2003
Redondo Beach, CA-USA
Chris Amos
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Shih MC and Whittemore A,
Tests for genetic association using family data. Genetic Epidemiology 2002 22:128-145.

Alexandre Alcais, et al. Strong association of intragenic SNPs of the 6q25 region with leprosy in two independent samples

 

(shared)
Nadia Tahri-Daizadeh et al. Automated detection of informative combined effects in genetic association studies of complex traits

Martin Tobin, et al. Analysis of continuous traits affected by treatment in genetic studies

2002
New Orleans, LA-USA
Max Baur
University of Bonn
Bonn - Germany
Bull SB, Darlington GA, Greenwood CMT and Shin J. Design considerations for association studies of candidate genes in families, Genetic Epidemiology, 2001, 20: 149-174.

France Gagnon, et al. Disentangling cmpound phenotypes and pleiotropic effects in multifactorial disease using covariate adjustmens: FCHL as an example

Martin Tobin, et al. Variance component models for the analysis of longitudinal family data

2001
Garmisch-Germany
M. Anne Spence
University of California
Irvine, CA
Olson JM and Cordell HJ. Ascertainment bias in the estimation of sibling genetic risk parameters. Genetic Epidemiology 2000; 18:217-253.

Jason Moore, et al. Symbolic discriminant analysis for mining gene expression patterns

 

David Conti, et al. Heirarchical modeling of linage disequilbrium

2000
San Antoino, TX-USA
Duncan C. Thomas
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Broman KW and Weber JL. Method for constructing confidently ordered linkage maps. Genetic Epidemiology 1999; 16:337-43.

Lisa J. Martin et al., Genotype by Smoking Interaction for Leptin Levels in the San Antonio Family Heart Study

(initial year of award)

Paivi Onkamo et al., Powerful LD mapping with SNPs by data mining methods

(initial year of award)

1999
St. Louis, MO-USA
Françoise Clerget-Darpoux
INSERM U155
Paris, France
Hongzhe Li, Thompson EA, Wijsman EM: Semiparametric estimation of major gene effects for age of onset, Genetic Epidemiology 1998;15:279-298 N/AN/A
1998
Arcachon, France
Jean W. MacCluer
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
San Antonio, TX - USA
Farrall M , Affected sibpair linkage tests for multiple linked susceptibility genes, Genetic Epidemiology 1997; 14:103-115. N/A N/A
1997
Baltimore, MD-USA
D. C. Rao
Washington University Medical School
St. Louis, MO - USA

Schaid DJ. General score tests for associations of genetic markers with disease using cases and their parents. Genetic Epidemiology 1996;13:423-49.

N/A N/A
1996
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Newton Morton
Princess Anne Hospital
South Hampton - UK

Williamson JA, Amos CI. Guess LOD approach: sufficient conditions for robustness. Genet Epidemiol 1995;12(2):163-76. (not online at Wiley)

(initial year of award)

 

N/A N/A
1995
Snowbird, UT-USA

Robert C. Elston
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH - USA

(initial year of award)

N/A N/A N/A
1994
Paris, France
N/A N/A N/A N/A
1993
New Orleans, LA-USA
N/A N/A N/A N/A
1992
Minneapolis, MN-USA
N/A N/A N/A N/A