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.
| Recent Primers | ||
| 9/22/16 | Introduction to Complex Trait Genetics |
Mark Daly Institute Member Broad Institute |
| 9/29/16 |
Genetics in Mendelian Human Disease [ video ] |
James Gusella Broad Institute, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| 10/6/16 |
GWAS design and interpretation [ video ] |
Gina Peloso Department of Biostatistics BU School of Public Health |
| 10/13/16 |
High-throughput sequencing and variant calling pipelines [ video ] |
Geraldine Van der Auwera Data Sciences & Data Engineering Broad Institute |
| 10/27/16 |
Natural selection and human genetic variation [ video ] |
Steven Schaffner Computational Biologist Broad Institute |
| 11/3/16 |
Human Structural Variation [ video ] |
Bob Handsaker Software Engineer Broad Institute |
| 11/10/16 |
Analysis of rare variants from sequencing studies [ video ] |
Ben Neale Institute Member Broad Institute |
| 11/17/16 |
ExAC and gnomAD: Using large genomic data sets to interpret human genetic variation [ video ] |
Daniel MacArthur Institute Member Broad Institute |
| 12/1/16 |
ExAC: mutational constraint and de novo mutations [ video ] |
Kaitlin Samocha Broad Institute |
| 1/5/17 |
Clinical interpretation of sequence variants [ video ] |
Heidi Rehm Institute Member Broad Institute |
| 1/19/17 |
Regulatory sequence variation in the human genome [ video ] |
Manolis Kellis Institute Member Broad Institute |
| 1/26/17 |
Mitochondrial Genomics [ video ] |
Sarah Calvo Broad Institute |
| 2/2/17 |
Genome Editing [ video ] |
Neena Pyzocha Broad Institute |
| 2/16/17 |
Clinical interpretation of genes for disease causality [ video ] |
Heidi Rehm Broad Institute |
| 3/02/17 |
Analyzing Cancer Genomes [ video ] |
Gad Getz Broad Institute |
