ADVANCED LINKAGE COURSE
July 10-14, 2000

Each session will start with a theoretical introduction followed by practical exercises.  Instructors for the course are John Blangero, David Clayton, David Curtis, Suzanne Leal, and Jurg Ott.  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 - July 10, 2000

Instructor - Suzanne Leal
Morning
Introduction to Analysis of Complex Traits
Sample Size Estimation:
Exercises with SLINK, MSIM, EPI-IFO and DESPAIR (SAGE)

Instructor - Jurg Ott
Afternoon

TBA
 

TUESDAY -  July 11, 2000
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.
Exercises (TBA)
 

WEDNESDAY - July 12, 2000

Morning
Instructor - Suzanne Leal
Ordering marker loci
Exercises with Crimap, CILINK and MAP-O-MAT

Afternoon
Free time for sightseeing, etc.
 

THURSDAY - July 13, 2000

Instructor - David Curtis

Non-parametric linkage analysis of pedigree data and sib-pair data.
Parametric linkage analysis for complex traits 
Exercises: TBA
 

FRIDAY - July 14, 2000

Instructor - John Blangero

Variance Components Methods
Exercises with SOLAR