2008 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, Seattle, Washington

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University of Washington Summer Institute in Statistical genetics

INSTRUCTORS:

• William Muir, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University bmuir@purdue.edu

• Bruce Walsh, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. jbwalsh@u.arizona.edu

Muir Lecture notes

• Lecture 1 (Introduction to Quantitative Genetics)
• Lecture 2 (Quantitative Traits)
• Lecture 3 (Covariance Between Relatives)
• Lecture 4 (Heritability)

Walsh Class Lecture notes

• Lecture 1 (Introduction to Population and Quantitative Genetics)
• Lecture 2 (Fisher's variance decomposition)
• Lecture 3 (Resemblance between relatives)
• Lecture 4 (Heritability)
• Lecture 5 (Artifical Selection)
• Lecture 6 (Inbreeding and crossbreeding)
• Lecture 7 (Correlated Characters)
• Lecture 8 (QTL mapping 1: Overview and Using Inbred Lines)
• Lecture 9 (QTL and Association Mapping in Outbred Populations)
• Lecture 10 (Tests for Molecular Signatures of Selection)

  Additional links

• Aarhus (Denmark) short course on Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics (10 days vs. the 2.5 for summer institute). 350+ pages of lecture notes. course website

• Advanced topics in biostatistics. Walsh advanced stats course, full lecture notes and problem sets at course website