WINTER 2008: Announcements

  • Wed Jan 9, 3.30, Foege Auditorium, Carlos Bustamante Seminar
  • Tues Jan 15, 5.30, Vista Cafe in Foege. The Genome Training Grant students are having a poster session.
  • Thurs Jan 17, 3.30 , T639 (Biostat Seminar). Katy Pollard Seminar
    Katy Pollard is a candidate for a StatGen faculty position in Biostatistics.
  • Pop Gen Lunch seminar is this quarter combined with GENOME 590 "Evolution and Population Genetics Seminar". It meets 12.00 noon on Fridays in S110 Foege.
  • Wed Feb 6, 3.30 Foege Auditorium, Goncalo Abecasis seminar.
  • Tues Feb 12, 2:00 HSB H562, John Shaffer "Genetic Epidemiology of bone loss in Mexican Americans". John Shaffer is a postdoctoral candidate from University of Pittsburgh.

    Special announcement for Winter 2008

    At the StatGen retreat on Nov 30, 2007, it was proposed that we have a somewhat more structured theme than in some recent quarters, and relate the seminar, at least loosely, to the StatGen course sequence. Accordingly, we will this quarter read literature related to

    Genetic Analyses of Quantitative Traits,

    starting from the foundations:
  • Hardy (1908) and Weinberg (1908) -- it's the centenary!!
  • Fisher (1918) -- probably we will not actually attempt Fisher (1918)
  • the classical animal breeding ANOVA and regression approaches,
  • polygenic models on pedigrees (Elston/Stewart 1971 for humans, Henderson/Wright for experimental organisms)
  • more modern syntheses of animal-breeding and Human Genetics approaches variance component models
  • analyses of quantitative trait data in genetic epidemiology
  • QTL mapping in humans and experimental organisms,
  • work of recent UW postdoc Yunju Sung on 2-QTL on pedigrees,
  • gene expression data -- a modern quantitative trait far from easy to analyze.

    Or anything else that meets this theme, and that you are interested in reading about and discussing.

    On Tuesday Jan 8 we will have a general discussion/overview of the topic, and how we want to frame the schedule for the quarter. Please come with your ideas -- particularly those of you who already have some expertise in genetic analysis methods for quantitative genetic traits.