Program in Medical and Population Genetics

Primer on Medical and Population Genetics

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The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of informal weekly discussions of basic genetics topics that relate to human populations and disease. Experts from across the Broad Institute community give in-depth introductions to the basic principles of complex trait genetics, including human genetic variation, genotyping, DNA sequencing methods, statistics, data analysis, and more.

Videos of these sessions are made freely available for viewing here and are geared toward a wide audience that includes research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and established investigators just entering the field.

If you'd like more information about the primers, or have suggestions for future topics, contact the seminar series organizer Chris Newton-Cheh via mpg_primer@broadinstitute.org.

9/17/09 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]		 David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute
9/24/09 A primer on human genetic variation
[ video ] 		Mark Daly,
Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/01/09 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ] 		James Gusella,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/08/09 Analysis of genome-wide SNP datasets
[ video ] 		Shaun Purcell,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/15/09 Gene-environment and gene-gene interactions
[video]		 Peter Kraft,
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
10/29/09 Understanding and Interpreting GWAS Data
[ video ] 		Paul de Bakker,
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
11/5/09 The Genetic Basis of Gene Expression
[ video - Barbara Stranger ]
[ video - Chris Cotsapas ] 		Barbara Stranger,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Chris Cotsapas,
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
11/12/09 Copy number variation in the human genome
[ video ] 		Josh Korn,
Graduate Student, Broad Institute
11/19/09 The Human Haplotype Map and Beyond
[ video ] 		Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute
12/03/09 Population stratification in disease association studies
[ video ]

Alkes Price
Assistant Professor of
Statistical Genetics,
Harvard School of Public Health

12/10/09 Phenotype Definition (With Tales From Psychiatry)
[ video ] 		Jordan Smoller
Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
01/14/10 Natural Selection and Human Genetic Variation
[ video ] 		Steve Schaffner
Computational Biologist,
Broad Institute
02/25/10 Mouse Genetics
[ video ] 		David Beier
Professor, Department of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School