Dear all, we are starting again our series of statistics talks for people interested in quantitative methods in biology and medicine in the Lausanne community. Since is the first event of the series, please distribute this announcement widely; interested people can subscribe directly to the mailing-list from the page http://lists.isb-sib.ch/mailman/listinfo/statslausanne The next seminar will take place Thursday, 20 September at 11h00 in the Génopode Building in Dorigny (room 2020). The speaker will be Asa Wirapati, from the Bioinformatics Core Facility (SIB), who will talk about "Estimating the invisible: Effect size distributions in genome-wide association studies". The talk will be linked to the content of this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118193 You can find more information about the forum on our web page at http://moodle.unil.ch/course/view.php?id=2729 Hope to see you there ! Frédéric (for the organizers: Jérôme Goudet, Valentin Rousson, Frédéric Schütz)