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. Videos are also available for streaming at the Broad's YouTube channel and are downloadable as podcasts at iTunesU.
If you'd like more information about the primers or have suggestions for future topics, contact seminar series organizer Chris Newton-Cheh.
| 2018-2019 Primers | ||
| 10/25/18 |
Introduction to complex trait genetics [ video ] |
Sekar Kathiresan Institute Member, Co-director, Medical and Population Genetics Program Broad Institute |
| 11/1/18 |
Insights from the study of the genetic basis of Mendelian disease |
James Gusella |
| 11/12/18 |
High throughput sequencing, present and future technologies [ video ] |
Niall Lennon & Maura Costello Broad Institute |
| 11/29/18 |
GWAS and secondary analyses of GWAS results [ video ] |
Gina Peloso Department of Biostatistics Boston University School of Public Health |
| 12/07/18 |
Sequence variant calling and data handling [ video ] |
Geraldine Van der Auwera Data Sciences Platform Broad Institute |
| 1/11/19 |
gnomAD: Using large genomic data sets to interpret human genetic variation [ video ] |
Anne O’Donnell-Luria Center for Medelian Genomics, Broad Institute Boston Children's Hospital |
| 1/24/19 |
Current & Future Catalog Products in Genomics Platform [ video ] |
Niall Lennon Tera Bowers Broad Institute |
| 1/31/19 |
Analysis of Rare Variants [ video ] |
Ben Neale Massachusetts General Hospital Broad Institute |
| 2/28/19 |
Structural Variation [ video ] |
Bob Handsaker Broad Institute Harvard Medical School |
| 4/02/19 |
Natural selection and human genetic variation [ video ] |
Steve Shaffner Broad Institute Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program |
