Statistical Genetics Seminar

Winter Quarter 2008
Tuesday 4:00-5:00,F643 HSB


CURRENT SCHEDULE

See also: Winter Quarter Announcements

Jan 8: General Discussion of approaches to genetics analysis of quantitative traits. Organizational meeting to set the schedule and speakers for the quarter.

Jan 15: Yanming Di

  • Hardy, GH (1908) Mendelian proportions in a mixed population. Science 1908 28: 49-50.
  • Guo, SW and Thompson EA (1992) Performing the exact test of Hardy Weinberg Biometrics 48: 361-372

    Jan 22: Bruce Weir

  • Pearson K (1896) Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. III. Regression, Heredity, and Panmixia. Phil Trans Roy Soc (A) 1896 187: 253-318.

    Jan 29: Charles Cheung (with Bruce Weir)

  • Wright (1922) COEFFICIENTS OF INBREEDING AND RELATIONSHIP.
    American Naturalist 1922 56: 330-338.
  • Cockerham CC (1954)
    AN EXTENSION OF THE CONCEPT OF PARTITIONING HEREDITARY VARIANCE FOR ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCES AMONG RELATIVES WHEN EPISTASIS IS PRESENT
    Genetics 1954 39: 859-882.

    Feb 5: Quenna Wong (with Elizabeth Thompson)

  • Thoday JM (1961) Location of polygenes. Nature 191:368.
  • McMillan I and Robertson A (1974)
    Power of detection of major genes affecting quantitative characters. Heredity 32: 349-356.

    Feb 12: Yoonha Choi and Sangsoon Woo

  • Z. B. Zeng, D. Houle, and C. C. Cockerham. (1990)
    How informative is Wright's estimator of the number of genes affecting a quantitative character? Genetics 126: 235-247.
  • Zhao-Bang Zeng, Tao Wang, and Wei Zou. (2005)
    Modeling quantitative trait loci and interpretation of models. Genetics 169: 1711-1725.

    Feb 19: Fred Boehm

  • Nuzhdin SV, Pasyukova EG, Dilda CL, Zeng Z-B and Mackay TM. (1997)
    Sex-specific quantitative trait loci affecting longevity in Drosophila melanogaster. PNAS 94: 9734-9739.

    Feb 26: Sarah Ng (with Elizabeth Thompson)

  • Allison DB (1997). Transmission-disequilibrium tests for quantitative traits. AJHG 60: 676-690.
    Erratum: AJHG 60: 1571.
  • G.R. Abecasis, L.R. Cardon, W.O.C. Cookson (2000)
    A General Test of Association for Quantitative Traits in Nuclear Families AJHG 66: 279--292.

    March 4: Audrey Fu

  • Amos CI (1994) Robust variance-components approach for assessing genetic linkage in pedigrees, American Journal of Human Genetics, 54(3):535-543

    March 11: Xiuwen Zheng and Dao-Fu Dai

  • Yun Ju Sung, Elizabeth A. Thompson, and Ellen M. Wijsman MCMC-Based Linkage Analysis for Complex Traits on General Pedigrees: Multipoint Analysis With a Two-Locus Model and a Polygenic Component. Genetic Epidemiology 31: 103-114 (2007)