Course detail

LZT5869 - Quantitative Genetics and Genomics


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