Quantitative and Population Genetics

1-4 Hours

Discuss critical reading of primary quantitative literature on the drivers of genetic variation and its mapping to trait variation, focusing on humans. Analyze central ideas in mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of human genetic variation and explore mutation and recombination, genetic drift, natural selection, analyses of gene-expression variation, population structure, genotype-phenotype stratification, and study designs for mapping genotype to phenotype. Biology 237 (Topic: Quant/Population Genetics) and Integrative Biology 237 (Topic 2) may not both be counted.