Courses on genetic epidemiology and sequencing in disease studies

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

Apply online via the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Online Enquiries and Applications page here

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)

Apply online via the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Online Enquiries and Applications page here

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.

For more information about the courses visit the Bloomsbury Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics courses webpage here.