GE02: Genetic-epidemiologic research methods

Week 1, Oct. 20 -- 24, 2008. Binary traits in families and populations

Exercises with answers (will be) available at http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/~yurii/courses/ge02-2008/program.html


Day 1

Introduction

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Basic probability

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Independent events, Mendel's lows

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Population genetics, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

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Departure from HWE, Genotyping error, Wahlund's effect, Inbreeding

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Day 2

Conditional probability, total probability

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Bayes formula, realtive and absolute risk

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Mutation-selection balance

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Day 3

Genetic risk calculation in families: X-linked and dominant disease

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Genetic risk calculation in families: recessive disease

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Day 4

Binomial distribution

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Genetic drift

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Normal & Poisson approximations to Binomial

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Day 5

Hypothesis testing

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Statistical testing in genetic-epidemiological studies

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Power of genetic-epidemiological study

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