Rockefeller University
Weiss Building (Room 302)
1230 York Avenue, New York

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