Schedule for Winter 1999
Jan. 5:
Ellen Wijsman: Genetics of Dyslexia: a work in progress
Jan. 12:
Nicky Chapman & Anne-Louise Leutenegger:
S Horvath and NM Laird (1998) A discordant-sibship test for disequilibrium
and linkage: No need for parental data. Am J Hum Genet 63:1886-1897.
Jan. 19:
Ellen Goode & Laura Schnorenberg
GE Bonney (1998) Ascertainment corrections based on smaller family units.
Am J Hum Genet 63:1202-1215.
Jan. 26:
Mary Kuhner: Ascertainment and SNPs
Note: this paper is only tangentially related to what Mary will be talking about.
The formal reference is:
Kuhner MK, Yamato J, Felsenstein J (1995)
Estimating effective population size and mutation rate from
sequence data using Metropolis-Hastings sampling.
Genetics. 140:1421-30.
Feb. 2:
Eric Anderson:
S Sawyer (1990) Maximum likelihood estimators for incorrect models, with an
application to ascertainment bias for continiuous characters.
Theor Pop Biol 38:351-366.
Feb. 9:
Cancelled so that people who are interested can attend the talk by Perci
Diaconis from Stanford University:
Title: Mathematics of Solitaire
Feb. 16:
Michael Levitz
EA Thompson (1986) Genetic Epidemiology: a review of the statistical basis.
Statist Med 5:291-302.
Feb. 23:
Simon Heath (Rockefeller University):
The application of MCMC methods to genetic linkage analysis.
Mar. 2:
Do Peterson
SW Guo (1998) Inflation of sibling recurrence-risk ratio, due to
ascertainment bias and/or overreporting. Am J Hum Genet 63:252-258.
To FTP the pdf file for Mar 2
click here. You will need Acrobat reader to read the file.
Mar. 9:
Jochen Kumm will talk about his haplotyping methods. An accompanying
article is:
O'Connell JR, Weeks DE (1998)
PedCheck: a program for identification of genotype incompatibilities in
linkage analysis. Am J Hum Genet. 63:259-266.
To FTP the pdf file for this paper
click here. You will need Acrobat reader to read the file.
Also relevant is: Stringham HM, Boehnke M (1996) "Identifying marker
typing incompatibilities in linkage analysis". AJHG 59:946-950.
A copy of this paper is in the statgen box.
Other Announcements
Meioses, Pedigrees and Populations
Elizabeth Thompson will be teaching a special topics course, STAT 592B
in winter, on models and inference methods (including Monte Carlo methods)
for meoises, pedigrees and populations. Click
here for more information.
http://www.biostat.washington.edu/biostat/classes/biostat580B
Last updated: Mar. 2, 1999