ADVANCED GENE
MAPPING\LINKAGE COURSE
August
2-6, 2004
Each session will start with a theoretical introduction followed by practical exercises. Instructors for the course are Laura Almasy, David Clayton, Heather Cordell, Suzanne Leal, Bertram Mueller-Myhsok and Thomas Wienker. Please feel free to bring your own data sets for discussion and/or analysis.
The course is everyday from
9:00AM- 5:00PM, except on Wednesday when the course will end at 12:30 PM
to allow for sightseeing.
MONDAY - August 2, 2004
MorningAfternoon
Instructor - Bertram Mueller-Myhsok
Haplotype Estimation, Linkage Disequilibrium
Exercises: PHASE, SNPHAP, etc
TUESDAY - August 3,
2004
Instructor-David Clayton
Tests of
association for quantitative and qualitative traits for
samples of
unrelated and
related individuals.
Family-based tests of linkage in the presence of
association.
Controling for admixture effects by genome-wide
analyses
Exercises: Will use the STATA program
Social Evening -7:30 PM
At a local Bavarian Restaurant
WEDNESDAY - August 4, 2004
Morning
Instructor - Thomas Wienker
Further
topics on association studies
Afternoon
Free time for sightseeing, etc.
THURSDAY - August 5, 2004
Instructor - Heather Cordell
Non-parametric linkage analysis of pedigree data and sib-pair data for
qualitative and quantitative traits.
Exercises: GENEHUNTER
FRIDAY - August 6, 2004
Instructor - Laura Almasy
Variance Components Methods
Exercises: SOLAR