Admixture mapping

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Other Authors: McKeigue, Paul (Speaker)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2007.
Series:Henry Stewart talks. Biomedical & life sciences collection. Genetic epidemiology II : latest developments.
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Online Access:https://hstalks.com/bs/606/
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Applications of statistical modelling of population admixture
  • Genetic and environmental explanations for ethnic differences in disease risk
  • Methods for finding genes that influence complex traits
  • Exploiting admixture to map genes
  • Statistical power of admixture mapping
  • Advantages of admixture mapping in comparison with other approaches to finding disease susceptibility genes
  • Methodological problems of extending linkage analysis of a cross to admixed human populations
  • Statistical methods that allow linkage analysis of a cross to be extended to admixed humans
  • Model for stochastic variation of ancestry on chromosomes inherited from an admixed parent
  • Multipoint inference of ancestry at marker loci from genotypes
  • Null hypothesis as graphical model
  • Statistical approach to model fitting and hypothesis testing
  • The score test algorithm
  • Other model diagnostics: "Bayesian p-values"
  • How many markers are required for genome-wide admixture mapping?
  • Panels of ancestry-informative markers
  • Other applications of statistical modelling of admixture.