Advanced Course Announcement
The University of Chicago
Department of Statistics
Course Announcement
Winter Quarter 2000
Statistics 455
Statistical Methods for Gene-Mapping
TuTh (1st half)
Eckhart 117
9:00-10:20 am
Dan L. Nicolae
Statistics 455 is a five-week course in the applications of
statistical methods in gene-mapping.
It is intended primarily for graduate students in Statistics and related
fields.
The course will review basic genetics and genetic models; classical
approaches to linkage analysis; likelihood based allele-sharing methods;
information in gene-mapping; multilocus models; quantitative traits;
Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods.
Prerequisites:
Recommended Text:
- Kenneth Lange (1997).
Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Genetic Analysis. Springer-Verlag.
October 1999