topic list chosen Sept. 26, 2000

• Use of microarrays in cancer genetetics
• selection of optimal phenotype: categorical, quantitative, threshold
• review of available statistical genetic software: what there is, what it does and its limitations, fancy new progams, power calculations
• Linkage analysis (using variations of mendelian rules)
• gene mapping (different resolutions)
• MCMC in linkage analysis
• espressed sequence tag algorithms
• basic theory
• transmission stuff
• sex-affected studies
• looped pedigrees
• populations genetics & evolution
• sequencing
• haplotyping
• whole genome linkage/TDT analysis
• linkage heterogeneity approaches (current, not historical)
• historical point of view: population genetics, linkage analysis
• variance component methods