Statistical Genetics

3 credits · Graduate

This course discusses the use of statistics in genetics. Following an introduction to genetics, statistical methodology related to genetic data will be covered. Such data arises in measuring population structure and distance, finding disease susceptibility loci, detecting genes related to quantitative traits, constructing phylogenetic trees, and from microarrays. PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor CROSSLISTED: STAT 4570.03 FORMATS: Lecture