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Title

Quantitative Genetics - Module 4 - Swiss Institute in Statistical Genetics

Dates

8 - 10 September 2014

Responsable de l'activité

Jérôme Goudet

Organizer(s)

A joint course with the Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology
Prof. Jérôme Goudet, University of Lausanne (CH) & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Prof. Bruce Weir, University of Washington (US)

Speakers

Prof. William M. Muir, University of Purdue (US)
Prof. J. Bruce Walsh, University of Arizona (US)

Description

Quantitative Genetics is the analysis of complex characters where both genetic and environment factors contribute to trait variation. Since this includes most traits of interest, such as disease susceptibility, crop yield, and all microarray data, a working knowledge of quantitative genetics is critical in diverse fields from plant and animal breeding, human genetics, genomics, to ecology and evolutionary biology.

 

The course will cover the basics of quantitative genetics including: Fishers variance decomposition, covariance between relatives, heritability, inbreeding and crossbreeding, and response to selection. Also an introduction to advanced topics such as: Mixed Models, BLUP, QTL mapping; correlated characters; and the multivariate response to selection.

 

Background reading:

Lynch, M. and Walsh, B. 1998. Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits. Sinauer Associates.

Location

University of Lausanne

Map

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Credits

1.5

Evaluation

Active Participation

Information

PREREQUISITE!
Have attended the course "An Introduction to R" or a similar course.


When?
8 - 10 September 2014
8:30-12:00 and 13:30-17:00

 

Where?
University of Lausanne, Biophore, Amphitheater.

 

Information:
- Please bring your laptop to the course!

 

Questions?
Caroline Betto-Colliard
@: [email protected]
Phone: +41 (0)21 692 42 44

Expenses

Course attendance:
Free for participants belonging to a CUSO University (UniBE, UniFR, UniGE, UniL & UniNE) and PhD students of the DP-biol.

300CHF for Academic participants

600CHF for Non-Academic participants


PhD students of the DPEE are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class) and meals. Please send the original tickets (no copies, except for the general abonnement) and receipts with the reimbursement form to Caroline Betto-Colliard. For PhD students of the DP-biol, please check the reimbursement conditions on the DP-Biol website.

Registration

CUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account. 

 

External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at top of page and the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO").

 

Priority is given to PhD students of the DPEE and the DP-biol until April 15th, 2014.
After this deadline, first-come, first-served!
Registration Deadline: August 22th, 2014

Places

60

Deadline for registration 22.08.2014
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