Biomedical Mathematics Seminar

Abstract: This presentation introduces DRLPC and a refined summary-statistics method to improve genetic association analysis. Applications to cognition, neurodegenerative diseases, and high cholesterol are discussed, with future directions in single-cell analysis and drug target discovery.

Abstract Dietary assessment is crucial for understanding the relationship between diet and health. Yet traditional recall-based methods for tracking diet often face challenges like participant compliance and accurate recall. To address these issues, our lab at Duke University has developed FoodSeq, a genomic approach to track food intake through DNA sequencing of stool samples. In …