Advanced Gene Mapping Course
The Rockefeller University, New York
Monday through Friday, December 14-18, 2009
An advanced gene mapping course will be held in New York from Monday through Friday December 14-18, 2009. The cost of the 5-day course is $100. This fee covers tuition, wine and cheese reception and course related expenses (handouts, etc.) but not room and board.
Emphasis in this course is on the analysis of complex disease traits. It will include theory as well as practical exercises. The maximum number of participants is 20. Seven travel stipends of up to $1,300 each are available to eligible participants from U.S. institutions.
The exercises will be carried out using a variety of computer programs (PLINK, R, GenABEL, MACH, LAMP, F2BAT, etc). TOPICS include: Analysis of whole genome association studies; qualitative and quantitative traits; population and family based; controlling for population substructure (principal components analysis); data quality control; imputation of genotype data; meta analysis; gene x gene interaction; analysis of rare variants; sample size estimation; evaluating power and significance levels for genetic studies; permutation; False discovery rate and controlling for multiple testing. The instructors for the course are: Goncalo Abecasis (University of Michigan), Heather Cordell (University of Newcastle), Christoph Lange (Harvard University), Suzanne Leal (Baylor College of Medicine & The Rockefeller University) and Shaun Purcell (Harvard University). A special lecture will be given by Jurg Ott (The Rockefeller University & The Beijing Institute of Genomics) on detecting gene interactions on Wednesday December 16 at 5:00 PM.
For additional information, course schedule and application form please visit the course website:
http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/suzanne/advanced_course_dec09.html <http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/suzanne/advanced_course_dec09.html>
Application deadline is Friday, October 30, 2009
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