IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Faculty of Medicine
Division of Primary Care and Population Health Sciences
St Mary's Campus, Paddington
Statistical Analysis of Genetic Association Studies
29 - 30 September 2005
This is an intermediate level course aimed at researchers who already have a grasp of statistical methods (e.g. hypothesis testing, correlation, using regression models), and some familiarity with genetics data (e.g. terminology such as polymorphism, haplotype, SNP, microsatellite). An introduction to population genetics and linkage disequilibrium will be provided. There will be exercises using the statistical package R and other specialist software: these will be briefly introduced, but some previous familiarity with scientific computing will be an advantage.
Summary of course content:
* Population genetics of linkage disequilibrium
* Statistical measures of association
* Inferring haplotypes from genotypes
* Population-based candidate-gene studies
* Population-based fine-scale mapping
* Genome-wide scans
* Tagging and the Hap Map
* Family-based association studies
* Accounting for population substructure
Course Instructors:
Professor David Balding & Dr Maria De Iorio, Imperial College, and Dr Andrew Morris, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford.
Course Organiser: Professor David Balding
Course Fee (inc. lunch):£400 (industry) £300 (academic, inc non- profit organisations) £200 (Imperial Staff and full-time students)
Further details from: Wolfson Conference Centre
Imperial College School of Medicine
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road
London W12 0NN
Tel: +44 (0)20 8383 3117/3227/3245
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