Gordon Research Conference in Quantitative Genetics & Genomics
February 20-25, 2011
Hotel Galvez
Galveston, TX
Chair:
Peter M. Visscher
Vice Chair:
Jack Dekkers
From genome to phenotype. Quantitative genetics aims to link phenotypic
variation for complex traits to its underlying genetic basis in order to
better understand and predict genetic architecture and long term change
within natural, agricultural, and human populations. Traditionally built
upon statistical abstractions of genetic effects, the field is now rapidly
advancing by making use of recent exciting developments in genetic and
genomic technologies to reveal explicit links between genes and complex
phenotypes, and therefore serves as a focal point for bringing together many
emerging areas of genetics, genomics, physiology, statistics,
bioinformatics, and computational biology. This synthesis is already having
a large impact on the areas of evolutionary biology, plant and animal
breeding, and the genetic analysis of human disease.
The strength of the Gordon Conference on "Quantitative Genetics & Genomics"
has historically been the bringing together of leaders in each of these
fields to explore and exchange areas of shared interest and cutting edge
developments, with the potential to impact all researchers within the broad
field of quantitative genetics. Building upon the tremendous success of our
conferences in recent years, we will again focus on many cutting-edge
developments in the field, including whole genome approaches to
understanding and exploiting genetic variation, the use of next generation
sequence data to identify causal genes and pathways, genome architecture and
regulation, systems genetics, non-traditional forms of inheritance, and
statistical genetics.
Check http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=quantgen for
updates on the Preliminary Program.
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Dr Stuart Macgregor
Senior Research Fellow
Queensland Statistical Genetics
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Post Office, Royal Brisbane Hospital
300 Herston Road
Brisbane 4029, Australia
tel. +61 7 3845 3563
fax. +61 7 3362 0101
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