Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
20 |
10 |
4 |
2 weeks |
60 hours |
Instructor
Gerson Barreto Mourão
Luiz Lehmann Coutinho
Objective
Provide the principles of quantitative genetics aplied to genome selection and genomics, so the students can understand a contribute to the development of this new area.
Content
The U.S. Beef Industry: Structure and Current Genetic Selection Programs; Priors in the Bayesian Alphabet; Developing Genomic Predictions: Training and Evaluation; Additive genomic relationship matrix and GBLUP; Haplotype-based models: BayesIM; Interpreting “genomic correlations” and pleiotropy; Tour of Genomics Center; Population structure in admixed populations; Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regression; GO enrichment analysis; MeSH enrichment analysis; GO / MeSH enrichment analysis in Bioconductor
Bibliography
Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics