2  Course Schedule

2.1 Background Material

  • Introduction to quantitative genetics
  • Reading materials
  • Introduction to R and RMarkdown

2.2 Heritability

  • Genetic variation
  • Parent-offspring regression
  • Line means analysis
  • Environmental variation and trait distributions
  • Covariation among traits
  • The G-matrix

2.3 Selection Analysis

  • Calculating fitness
  • Selection analysis
  • Correlation among traits
  • Normalization of traits
  • Calculation of selection gradients
  • Comparison of the pattern of selection across populations

2.4 Quantitative Genetic Mapping

  • Basic phenotyping and mapping information
  • Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) mapping
  • Epistasis
  • Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)