Course Detail
Units:
4.0
Course Components:
Laboratory
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: Junior, Senior or Graduate standing; one semester Calculus; one semester Ecology or evolution.
Requirement Designation:
Quantitative Intensive BS
Description
Theories and methods of molecular population genetics, with emphasis on human examples. How DNA sequence variation is analyzed to infer population history and to identify genes recently subject to selection. Laboratory exercises develop elementary programming skills and show how computation is used to connect models and data.