Monthly Archives: October 2011

Journal tea: 1st Nov.

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

For tuesday let’s read: Bhatia et al. Genome-wide comparison of African-ancestry populations from CARe and other cohorts reveals signals of natural selection. AJHG 2011

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Journal tea: 13th Oct

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

Matt Rockman’s review on the QTN program

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Population genetics course resources: Hardy-Weinberg Eq.

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Using data from the Hapmap to illustrate Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. The code and the data are below. The original inspiration for these comes from John Novembre, who made a similar plot for one of his classes. I took 10,000 SNPs … Continue reading →

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Population genetics course resources: Quantitative traits 3.

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Final of this initial set of 3 quantitative trait simulations. The first reason I set out to do these simulations is that none of the figures in text books were very good (okay these aren’t pretty but at least I … Continue reading →

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Population genetics course resources: Quantitative traits 2.

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

The second quantitative trait code post. The set up is the same as in the last QT post. I simulate parents with L genotypes drawn binomially from the population, and then make kids from these parents. This one makes the … Continue reading →

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Population genetic course resource: Quantitative traits 1

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Here’s the first of 3 Quantitative trait simulations I wrote for last year. We used them in class and also had the TAs in my big undergrad class use them. Code to simulate the phenotypes of a population. There are … Continue reading →

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Teaching Population genetics resources

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

I teach a graduate level population genetics class, in our Population Biology Graduate Group core (along with a large undergrad class on An Introduction to Evolution). I taught the course last year and it went reasonably well (well no one … Continue reading →

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journal tea Oct 4th.

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences -Gronau et al A summary of the paper by Pritchard the paper relies on the method of Rannala and Yang

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