Advanced Gene Mapping Course
The Rockefeller University, New York
Monday through Friday, January 16-20, 2012
The course emphasis is analysis of complex human disease traits; concentrating on methods to detect rare and common variant associations. The course will include theory as well as practical exercises. The exercises will be carried out using a variety of computer programs including R, PLINK, PSEQ, MACH, RarePower, Polyphen-2. TOPICS include: Analysis of whole genome association studies; analysis of rare variants using next generation sequence data; qualitative and quantitative traits; functional predication of variant sites, population and family based; controlling for population substructure (principal components analysis); data quality control; imputation of genotype data; meta-analysis; gene x gene interaction; sample size estimation and evaluating power. The instructors for the course are: Goncalo Abecasis (University of Michigan), Heather Cordell (University of Newcastle), Suzanne Leal (Baylor College of Medicine & The Rockefeller University), Shaun Purcell (Mount Sinai & Harvard University) and Shamil Sunyaev (Harvard University).
The cost of the 5-day course is $100. Eight travel stipends of up to $1,300 each are available to eligible participants from U.S. institutions who are either pre-doctoral students or postdoctoral researchers.
The course application deadline is December 2, 2011
For additional course information and application form please visit the course website: http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/suzanne/advanced_course_Jan_12
This course is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) - National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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