Primer on Medical and Population Genetics

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.

  9/16/10 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute
  9/23/10 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/14/10 Primer on genetic variation, LD, HapMap and beyond
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/21/10 Understanding and Interpreting GWAS Data
[ video ]
Paul de Bakker
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
10/28/10 Phenotype Definition (with tales from psychiatry)
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
11/18/10 Genetics of Gene Expression
[ video ]
Barbara Stranger
Associate Member, Broad Institute

Chris Cotsapas
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
12/02/10 Next Generation Resequencing
[ video ]
Mark DePristo
Manager, Medical and Population Genetics Analysis, Broad Institute
  1/20/11 Mouse Genetics
[ video ]
David R. Beier
Associate Member, Broad Institute