The Bloomsbury Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics will run 2 short courses in September 2013.
Course 1: Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology in the GWAS era, 3-6 September 2013
Course Content
Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology
• Basic genetics, genetic markers, sequencing technology
• Basic population genetics
• Segregation and linkage analysis
• Association analysis in populations and families
Genomewide association scans (GWAS)
• Rationale and design of GWAS
• Association analysis, quality control and population stratification
• Multiplicity, replication and meta-analysis
• Emerging trends including pathway analysis and risk prediction
Course 2: High throughput sequencing in disease studies, 9-12 September 2013
Course Content
Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing data
• Introduction to Linux, R and bioinformatics
• Sequencing technologies
• Data formats, quality control and alignment
• Assembly and annotation of genomes
• SNP, indel and structural variant calling
• 1000 Genomes data and accessing data from the short read archive
• RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analysis
• Applications of sequence data (phylogenetics assessing population structure, association studies and detection of genic selection)
The cost of one course is £900 for external applicants and £700 for internal participants (students/employees of UCL, LSHTM and Birkbeck). The course fee covers participation in the course, materials, incidental tea/coffee, lunch on all days and a reception at the end of day 4.
Both courses will be held at dedicated computer labs at Birkbeck, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX.