RSS HIGHLANDS LOCAL GROUP MEETING (+AGM meeting preceding the talk):
TITLE: Untangling sexual reproduction: two statistical problems in genetics
SPEAKER: IAN WILSON (University of Aberdeen)
DATE: 6pm, Thursday 5 June 2003
VENUE: Meston Building, Room 302, Kings College, University of Aberdeen
TEA: from 5:45 pm
ABSTRACT:
Sexual reproduction, an individual's genotype
is a combination of the genes from both parents.
A number of problems in statistical genetics can
be thought of as disentangling the contributions.
In this talk I shall outline two problems where
inference about parental genotypes is important,
one in ecology and another in the genetics of
disease, and outline Bayesian methods for assigning
genes to parents. In both cases I take a Bayesian
approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo and discuss
a method to deal with slow mixing.
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Everybody (that includes Non-RSS members and Non-Statisticians :-))
welcome!
Claus Mayer,
Secretary, Highlands Local Group
(http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/rss/highlands.html)
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Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland | email: [log in to unmask]
Rowett Research Institute | Telephone: +44 (0) 1224 716652
Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | Fax: +44 (0) 1224 716608
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