510 Syllabus

Fish 510 Quantitative Genetics
Syllabus

Syllabus

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Week	Date	Topic
1	1 April	Genetic & statistical foundations I: properties of distributions, covariance and regression, phenotypic effects of loci, decomposition of genotypic value
2	8 April	Statistical & statistical foundations II: breeding value, variance components, heritability, MV analysis, correlated traits, selection differential
3	15 April	Heritability
4	22 April	Sib analysis
5	29 April	Evaluation of pedigrees and inbreeding (Dr Jim Myers)
6	6 May	Threshold characters and other special problems
7	13 May	Correlated characters
8	20 May	Alternatives to least-squares approaches: maximum-likelihood and Bayesian methods
9	27 May	Analysis of line crosses and hybridization
10	3 June	Analysis of selection experiments