BTRY 6890 - Topics in Population Genetics and Genomics

Fall, spring. 1 credit. (May be repeated for credit)

Prerequisite: BTRY 6820 or permission of instructor.

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Graduate seminar on current topics in population genetic data analysis. Topics this semester may include detecting signatures of natural selection, estimating demographic parameters, and recombination rate variation from whole-genome data; statistical methods for association mapping; efficient methods for disease gene mapping; and use of comparative genomic data for population genetic inference. Readings are chosen primarily from current literature.