The Genomics of Common Diseases Annual Conference 2013

Over the past seven years, our understanding of the genetic architecture of disease has been progressively redefined by genome-wide association studies characterizing common variation, the fine mapping of these associated regions, the emergence and growth of new sequencing technologies and the assessment of rare-variant association.

This past year has seen a continuing increase in the scale of genetic data sets, using genotyping array approaches, as well as targeted exome and whole-genome sequencing. This conference will include presentations representing the latest applications of these approaches across a range of common diseases, with a focus on understanding the genetic and mechanistic basis of these diseases and moving toward clinical translation. We will consider what we have learned from studies on large numbers of individuals and challenges faced in study design, technology and analysis.