Schedule of lectures

STAT/BSTAT 550: Fall 2007

THIS SCHEDULE IS PRELIMINARY, AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Date
Topic
References and remarks
Thursday, Sept 27
8.30-9.50
1.1 General introduction. Mendel's laws.
1.2 Terminology. Pedigrees.
Get set up for your StatGen computing
Background on likelihood
Chapter 1 (PDF) Notes (posted 9/23/2007)
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Tuesday , Oct 2
8.30-9:50
1.3 Allele and genotype frequencies;
1.3 Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
1.3 Population subdivision.
Passwords will be available for new Biostat accounts:
Lab 1 (posted 9/21/2007) will be due 10/11.
Thursday, Oct 4
8:30-9:50
1.3 Estimating allele freqs: recessive case
1.3 Estimating allele frequencies from relatives
Discussion session for homework 1.
Homework 1 (posted 9/20/2007) due
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Tuesday, Oct 9
8.30-9:50
1.4 Testing HWE: goodness of fit
1.4 Testing the ABO blood group models
1.5 Start of EM--gene counting for recessive allele
Help on copying/editing files in Unix/linux
More help on editing file in Unix
Help with Strange problems with files out of Notepad etc. Summary: Kayleen Williams
Thursday, Oct 11
8:30-9:50
1.5 More EM algorithm
1.6 Haplotypes and allelic association
Homework 2 (posted 10/01/2007)due
and Lab 1 (Posted 9/21/2007) due.
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Tuesday, Oct 16 1.6 Estimating phase and haplotype frequencies.
1.7 Mutation, selection, and random genetic drift
Help on meaning of expectations (posted 10/14/2007)
Chapter 2 (PDF) Notes (posted 10/14/2007)
Summary: Patrick Danaher
Thursday, Oct 18 2.1 Start of intro to pedigrees (Chap 2)
More on pedigrees: quad-half-1st-cousins
2.2 Kinship and inbreeding coefficients
Homework 3 due (Reposted (final) 10/10/2007)
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Tuesday, Oct 23 2.2 Computation of kinship by path-counting and by recursion.
2.2 Recessive traits in inbred individuals
2.3 IBD between pairs of relatives
Summary: Veronika Skrivankova
Thursday, Oct 25 2.3 Triangle-representation of relationships.
2.4 Data on pairs of relatives
2.3 Back to IBD--quadruple half first cousins.
Homework 4 (posted 10/14/2007: update 10/16)
and Lab 2 due (posted 10/10/2007)
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Tuesday, Oct 30 2.4 General relationship of IBD to data.
3.1 Linkage and recombination
Chapter 3 (PDF) Notes (posted 10/29/2007)
Summary: Xiuwen Zheng
Thursday, Nov 1 3.1 Haplotypes and allelic association.
The sources of allelic association.
Homework 5 (posted 10/19: confirmed 10/24/2007) due.
A good week to think about projects
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Tuesday, Nov 6 3.1 Decay of allelic association over generations
3.2 Counting recombinants and estimating recombination.
Summary: Brian Piening
Thursday, Nov 8 3.3 Linkage designs and information Lab 3 due. (Posted 10/24/2007).
No graded Homework
Turn in 1 paragraph of thoughts about your project
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Tuesday, Nov 13 3.4 Power, sample size and information
3.5 Two-locus gene ibd (omit 2-locus kinship)
Summary: Quenna Wong.
Updated papers list
Thursday, Nov 15 3.6 Homozygosity mapping Homework 6 (posted 11/02) due.
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Tuesday, Nov 20 Start Chapter 4:
4.1 Meiosis, maps and map functions
Chapter 4 (PDF) Notes (posted 11/18/2007)
Summary: Yi-Ting Lin.
Final (?) papers list and Project info
Thursday, Nov 22 THANKSGIVING Lab 4 due. (Posted 11/04/2007).
Due by email at Thanksgiving
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Tuesday, Nov 27 4.2 Multilocus recombination: the Lander-Green algorithm (no summary). Student evaluations.
Thursday, Nov 29 4.2 EM for genetic map estimation
4.3 Bigger pedigrees -- Elston-Stewart algorithm
Homework 7 (posted 11/18) due.
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Tuesday, Dec 4 4.3 SIMLINK etc. Summary:
Thursday, Dec 6 4.4 Monte Carlo sampling on pedigrees. Homework 8 (posted 11/26/2007) and Lab 5 due (posted 11/21/2007).
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Tuesday, Dec 11 PROJECTS DUE BY NOON Due by email (files names with your name and NO spaces), or hard copy to Statistics (mail boxes in main office B313).