Biostat 581. Statistical Genetics Seminar. http://courses.washington.edu/b581/

Fall 2018. Topic: Admixture

Instructor: Sharon Browning, sguy@uw.edu

Note on attendance for registered students: Please let Sharon know if you will be missing one of the meetings due to illness or other excusable absence.

Schedule:

October 9. Sankararaman, Sridhar, Kimmel, Halperin. 2008. Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations. Am J Hum Genet. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.09.022

Also, introduction to admixture and perspective on changing genotyping/sequencing technology

Presenters: Hongjie, Raphael

October 16. Gravel. 2012. Population Genetics Models of Local Ancestry. Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.112.139808

Presenters: Esther, Edward

October 23. Brown et al. 2017. Admixture Mapping Identifies an Amerindian Ancestry Locus Associated with Albuminuria in Hispanics in the United States. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2016091010

Presenters: Charlie, Shannon

October 30. Lawson, Hellenthal, Myers and Falush. 2012. Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data. Plos Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002453

Presenters: Maria, Aaron

November 6. Bryc, Durand, Macpherson, Reich and Mountain. 2015. The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States. Am J Hum Genet. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.11.010

Presenters: Priyanka, Xiaowen

November 13. Chimusa, Zaitlen, Daya, Moller, van Helden, Mulder, Price and Hoal. 2013. Genome-wide association study of ancestry-specific TB risk in the South African Coloured population. Human Molecular Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddt462

Presenters: Alan, Michael

November 20. Conomos et al. 2016. Genetic Diversity and Association Studies in US Hispanic/Latino Populations: Applications in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Am J Hum Genet. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.12.001

Presenters: Pearl, Yunqi, Joe

November 27. Amarise, Anya

December 4. Kelsey