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Lecture notes from the course of Detection of QTLs and Marker-assisted Selection by J. Weller, M. Sollor, and A. B. Korol, 24 August - 7 Sept 1997, Jerusalem. Much thanks for Joel Weller and company for allowing these to be posted.

Please note that these notes are given as pdf files (and hence require a browser with a pdf reader), and have been converted from the original documents. There has been some loss of resolution in the figures and a misplaced character or two in a few of the equations. Since these are saved as doubled pages, they are not easily read off the screen, but print out just fine.

1. Course information and Historical Overview
2. Experimental designs to detect QTLs (NOT YET POSTED)
3. Statistical methods for QTL detection and parameter estimation
4. Statistical power to detect QTLs, parameter confidence interval, and optimization of experimental designs
5. Multiple markers and multiple traits
6. Marker-assisted selection
7. Poster abstracts

Additional notes from Abraham Korol

• Multitrait analysis
• QTL x Environment interactions

Poster Abstracts , with the following abstracts:

• DNA microsatellites - the lab perspective (M. Ron)
• TOWARDS MARKER ASSISTED BREEDING IN POPLAR (V. Storme et al)
• MOVING FROM QTL EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS TO THE UTILISATION OF QTL IN CURRENT BREEDING PROGRAMMES. (R.J. Spelman and H. Bovenhuis)
• A model for population growth of laboratory animals subjected to marker assisted introgression: how many animals do we need? (O. Delphin Koudand, Peter C. Thomson and Johan van Arendonk)
• EXPLOITATION OF HALOTHANE GENE IN SELECTION FOR PORK QUANTITY AND QUALITY (Chindo Hicks)
• TOWARDS THE IDENTIFICATION OF TRYPANOTOLERANCE QTLS IN CATTLE (O.Hanotte)

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