1/10/2017
Statistical analysis of quantitative genetics
What we will cover
- genomic relationships
- genomic selection
- genome-enabled prediction
- additive and non-additive effects
- genome-wide association study
- genomic heritability
- statistical genomics of disease
- population stratification
- multiple-trait model
- causal inference
Assignments
- hands-on analysis of simulated and real genomic data
- no mideterm exam
- final exam
- 15 minutes presentation
- Rstudio + R Markdown + knitr
- Jupyter Notebook
Reproducible Research
Course website
Prediction vs. Inference - 1
- Inference
- effect of allele substitution
- variance component estimation
- Prediction
- prediction of yet-to-be observed phenotypes
- genomic selection
Prediction vs. Inference - 2