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Program for March 3, 2003

Morning Session
8:15 - 8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:30 - 9:15 Multigenic Human Variation
Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
9:15 - 10:00 "Should the Monkey Who Types 'Hamlet' Get a Pulitzer?"
Controlling Type I Error in Pharmacogenetic Studies

Michael Province, Washington University School of Medicine
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 Myths and Realities About the Prognosis for Gene Mapping in Complex Traits
Joseph Terwilliger, Columbia University Genome Center & Dept. of Psychiatry
11:00 - 11:45 Comparative Genomics
Anna Di Rienzo, University of Chicago

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session
1:15 - 1:45 Synergistic Interaction of Beta-1- and Alpha-2C-adrenergic Receptor Polymorphisms in Congestive Heart Failure
Stephen Liggett, University of Cincinnati
1:55 - 2:35 Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters: Variation and Functional Consequences
Ira Herskowitz, University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen Giacomini, University of California, San Francisco
2:45 - 3:15 Pharmacogenomics of Childhood ALL
William Evans, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
3:15 - 3:25 Break
3:25 - 4:00 The Pharmacogenomics of Asthma Treatment: Novel Genes Influencing Response to Inhaled Steroids
Scott Weiss, Brigham & Women's Hospital
4:10 - 4:25 Study of Pharmacogenetics in Ethnically Diverse Populations (SOPHIE)
Esteban Burchard, University of California, San Francisco
4:45 - 6:15 Open Poster Session
SJCRH Danny Thomas/ALSAC Pavilion

7:00 Dinner