BMI 6510 - Advanced Genetic Epidemiology: Association

An advanced, applied course for graduate students with a strong research focus on genetic epidemiology, and association analysis particularly. Provided sufficient demand, it is taught in the Fall semester. For additional information contact Dr. Nicola Camp. This course is structured as a mixture of lectures, analysis presentations, analysis discussions, paper debates, and computer and analysis labs. The course includes: case-control and family based designs; theoretical aspects and practical analysis exercises using a variety of software; linkage disequilibrium structure; tagging-SNPs; haplotypes and haplotype grouping; meta analyses; sample size, power and significance and multiple testing issues.