Detailed information about the course
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 |
Speakers | Prof. William M. Muir, University of Purdue (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 |
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Credits | 1.5 |
Evaluation | Active Participation |
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Expenses | Course attendance: 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. |
Places | 60 |
Deadline for registration | 22.08.2014 |