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What PCA and clustering reveal about human migration, longevity and breast cancer

Speaker: Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University
When: September 18, 2007 (Tue), 03:30PM to 04:30PM
Hosted by: Bennett Goldberg
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This event is part of the Department Colloquia Series. Colloquia are at 3:30 in the Metcalf Science Center (SCI 107) Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the 1st Floor Lounge

The sequencing of genomes has created a new opportunity for physicists, chemists, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists and engineers to help make new discoveries in the biological sciences. In this talk, I will describe how two simple techniques, principal component analysis (PCA) and consensus ensemble clustering, give new insights into problems in population genetics, cancer and longevity.