6th Network Meeting

The summer 2006 meeting of the UK DNA Banking Network was hosted by the University of Edinburgh at the Heriot Watt campus.

Full Programme

Presentations (in PDF)

Dr David Barker, CSO, Illumina, San Diego, USA

New developments supporting whole genome association studies

Dr Rhian Gwilliam, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Properties of available whole genome association arrays

Dr David Evans, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford

Determinants of success with whole genome association studies

Professor John Whittaker, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Novel statistical methods for the analysis of whole genome association studies

Dr Tim Frayling, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter

Discovery of type 2 diabetes gene TCF7L2: lessons for association studies for polygenic disease

Dr Patricia Munroe, Genome Centre, Bart’s and the London

Update from the BRIGHT study

Mr Andrew Platt, Database Manager UDBN

Update on UK DNA Banking Network Sample Banking

Dr Jay Brown, UDBN

Update on UK DNA Banking Network R&D Projects

Dr Martin Yuille, UDBN

The UK DNA Banking Network in 2011