Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2019

Venue: University of New England, Armidale, NSW Australia

Course Audience: Postgraduate students and other professionals

 

 

 

Introduction to Graphical Models with Applications to Quantitative Genetics and Genomics 

 

Teachers:

Dr Guilherme J. M. Rosa        University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr Francisco Peñagaricano    University of Florida-Gainesville

 

Dates:     Tuesday 29 January 2019 (9am) – Friday 1 February 2019 (4pm)

 

Program 2019

 

Course Materials 2019

 

Day 1

Correlation and causation

Matrix basics

Probability, random variables

Path Analysis

Estimation, Independence test

 

R examples Rosa

 

Day 2

Correlation networks

Correlation networks (lab 1)

Mixed Models

Structural Equation Models

 

Mixed model examples

 

Day3

Latent variables

SEM (lab 2)

Bayesian Networks

Examples: prediction and causal inference

 

Day4

Bayes Nets (lab 3)

Instrumental variable

GWAS and QTL analysis

GWAS and QTL analysis (lab 4)

 

 

 

 

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Material of previous years:

 

Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2018    Materials

·         Mathematical modeling of infection dynamics in genetically diverse livestock populations: Andrea Doeschl-Wilson and Osvaldo Anacleto          

 

Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2017    Materials

·         Genotype by environment interaction in breeding programs: Piter Bijma and Han Mulder           

 

Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2016    Materials

 

Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits  & Prediction of Phenotype

from Genome-wide SNPs - Doug Speed and David Balding

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2015   Materials

                    Primer to genomic analysis using R:    Cedric Gondro

                    From Sequence Data to Genomic Prediction:   Ben Hayes and Hans Daetwyler

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2014    Materials

Breeding Program Design with Genomic Selection: Jack Dekkers, Julius van der Werf

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2012    Materials

Statistical Methods for Genome-Enabled Selection: Daniel Gianola, Gustavo de los Campos 

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2011    Materials

·         Statistical methods and design in plant breeding and genomics: Ian Mackay

·        IBD inference in genome association studies: Elizabeth Thompson

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2010    Materials

·         Application of evolutionary algorithms to solve complex problems in quantitative genetics

and bioinformatics:   Brian Kinghorn, Cedric Gondro

·         Bayesian methods in genome association studies:  Dorian Garrick,  Rohan Fernando

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2009    Materials

·        Quantitative Genetic Theory and Analysis- Selection Theory:    Bruce Walsh

·         Quantitative Genetic Models for social interaction and inherited variability: Piter Bijma

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2008      Materials 

·         Genomic Selection:       Ben Hayes

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2007      Materials

·         Generalized Linear Mixed Models:        Steve Kachman

 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2006    Materials

·         Gene Expression:          Toni Reverter

·         Breeding Program Design:         Graser, James, Van der Werf

 
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2005    Materials
·         Breeding Objectives: Gibson, Van der Werf, Kinghorn
·         Scientific Writing:          David Lindsay
·         ASReml:           Arthur Gilmour
 
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2004    Materials
·         Bayesian for Beginners               Kerrie Mengersen
·         Bayesian Models for QTL analysis        Michel Perez-Enciso
·         Bioinformatics   John McEwan
 

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2003    Materials

·         Scientific Writing:  David Lindsay
·         Linear Models for animal breeding:   Julius van der Werf, Mike Goddard
·         QTL mapping for practitioners, from linkage to gene: Ben Hayes, Julius van der Werf
 
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