An advanced linkage course will be held in New York from Monday through Friday December 11-15, 2006.  The cost of the 5-day course is $100.   This fee covers tuition and course related expenses (handouts, etc.) but not room and board.

The maximum number of participants is 20.  The course will take place in the teaching room of the Weiss Building at The Rockefeller University, which is equipped with desktop PCs running under LINUX.  The course is wheel chair accessible. Emphasis in this course is on the analysis of complex disease traits.  It will include theory as well as practical exercises.  The exercises will be carried out using a variety of computer programs.  TOPICS include: sib pair analysis (quantitative and qualitative traits); non-parametric method for analyzing extended family pedigree data; association studies - population and family based; controlling for population admixture/substructure; tagSNP selection; construction of haplotypes, linkage disequilibrium, evaluating power and significance levels for genetic studies; controlling for multiple testing and variance components analysis.  The instructors for the course are: Goncalo Abecasis, Laura Almasy, David Clayton, Heather Cordell and Suzanne Leal. A special lecture will be given by Dr. Jurg Ott on detecting gene-environment interactions on Monday December 11 at 5:00PM.

Six travel stipends of up to $1,200 each are available to eligible participants from U.S. institutions.  Eligibility requirements are: (1) sufficient background and practical experience in linkage analysis, and (2) demonstrated financial need.  Preference will be given to students and postdoctoral researchers.  To apply for such a stipend, please attach a letter of request and enclose a letter of reference and proof of student or postdoctoral status.

Knowledge of linkage analysis/statistical genetics are screening criteria for selection of participants.  Please describe your experience in detail.  We may contact you personally to discuss this with you further.
 
 

For additional information, please contact Katherine Montague:
email: montagk@rockefeller.edu
Tel: +1 (212) 327-7979
 

For additional information on scientific program contact the course organizer Suzanne Leal:
email:sleal@bcm.tmc.edu
Tel: +1 (713) 798-4011

Application deadline is Monday October 16, 2006

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This course is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health - National Human Genome Rearch Institute.