Max Delbrück Center (MDC) for Molecular Medicine - Berlin, Germany

Basic Gene Mapping\Linkage Analysis Course
July 17-21, 2006


Each session will start with a theoretical introduction followed by practical exercises. The instructors for the course are Suzanne Leal (Baylor College of Medicine) and Michael Nothnagel (Kiel University & Max Delbrück Center). Please feel free to bring your own data sets for discussion and/or analysis.

The course will be held daily from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, except on Wednesday when the course will end at 12:30 PM for sightseeing.  A wine and cheese get together will be held for students and faculty directly after the course on Monday July 17, 2006.

MONDAY
July 17, 2006

Morning

Lecture

Basic terminology, introduction to population genetics, calculating LOD scores

 

 

Afternoon

Lecture

Getting started using UNIX, introduction to linkage analysis, file system used by the LINKAGE programs, locus types, data entry for a dominant disease

 

Exercises

LINKAGE programs (MLINK, ILINK)

 

 

TUESDAY
July 18, 2006

Morning

 

Lecture

Incomplete penetrance, penetrances for autosomal recessive and x-linked inheritence, allele frequency estimation, loops and detecting genotyping errors. Designing a genetic study

 

Exercises

MERLIN, UNKNOWN, PEDMANAGER and PEDCHECK

 

 

 

Afternoon

Lecture

Parametric multipoint linkage analysis and genetic maps

 

Exercises

LINKAGE(LINKMAP), GENEHUNTER, MEGA2 and SIMWALK2

 

 

WEDNESDAY
July 19, 2006

Morning

 

Lecture

Linkage disequilibrium, tag SNPs, Association studies-case control and family based (trios)

 

Exercises

SNPHAP, UNPHASED

 

 

 

Afternoon

Time for sightseeing

 

 

THURSDAY
July 20, 2006

Morning

 

Lecture

Allele-sharing (nonparametric) methods for quantitative and qualitative traits for sib-pairs and extended families

 

Exercises

ALLEGR0

 

 

 

Afternoon

 

Lecture

Intermarker linkage disequilibrium, Analyzing whole genome scan data for linkage studies. Computer tools for fine mapping and gene identification.

 

Exercises

ALOHOMORA

 

 

FRIDAY
July 21, 2006

Morning

 

Lecture

Linkage Admixture

 

Exercises

HOMOG, ANALYZE and GENEHUNTER

 

 

 

Afternoon

 

Lecture

Sample size estimation and calculating empirical p-values

 

Exercises

 

 

SIMULATE, SLINK, MSIM, SIMPED, PAWE, EpiInfo and PS