Rockefeller University
ADVANCED GENE MAPPING/LINKAGE COURSE
December 13-17, 2004
The course will be held every day from 9:00AM - 5:00PM in Room 302 of the Weiss Building on the Rockefeller University campus, located at 1230 York Avenue (entrance at 66th Street).
Each session will start with a theoretical introduction followed by practical exercises. Instructors for the course are Goncalo Abecasis, Laura Almasy, Warren Ewens, Heather Cordell, Suzanne Leal, and Jurg Ott. Please feel free to bring your own data sets for discussion and/or analysis.
MONDAY - December 13
Morning and Afternoon (Ewens)
Association Studies - Population Based (case control) and Family Based
Evening
Get-together for course participants and instructors (approximately 5:15-7:30).
TUESDAY - December 14
Morning (Ott)
Association Studies using Haplotype Data
Exercises with SNPHAP
Afternoon (Leal)
Power Analysis (pedigree, sib-pair and case control data; estimation of empirical p-values
Exercises with SLINK, SIMULATE, MSIM, ELOD, DESPAIR, PS
WEDNESDAY - December 15
Morning and Afternoon (Cordell)
Non-parametric linkage analysis of pedigree data; sibpair and extended families
Exercises with GENEHUNTER, ALLEGRO
THURSDAY - December 16
Morning and Afternoon (Almasy)
Variance Component Analysis
Exercises with SOLAR
FRIDAY - December 17
Morning and Afternoon (Abecasis)
Haplotype Construction; Linkage Disequilibrium
Exercises with MERLIN, GOLD, LDMAX