Genetic Inference Group

Spring 2008

 

Thursdays at 3:30, 302 Bioscience West

                 

                                                     

February 7

Organizational Meeting

 

February 21

Distribution of Fitness Effects I

Grant Peterson

Bibliography: Adam Eyre-Walker and Peter D. Keightley (2007)

The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations.

Nature Review Genetics 8:610-618.

 

February 28

Estimating Selection Coefficients

Heather Norton

Bibliography: P. C. Sabeti, S. F. Schaffner, B. Fry, J. Lohmueller, P. Varilly, O. Shamovsky,A. Palma,T. S. Mikkelsen, D. Altshuler, E. S. Lander

Positive Natural Selection in the Human Lineage

Science 312: 1614-1620.

 

March 6

Distribution of Fitness Effects II

Grant Peterson

Bibliography: Adam Eyre-Walker, Megan Woolfit, and Ted Phelps (2006)

The Distribution of Fitness Effects of New Deleterious Amino Acid Mutations in Humans.                                                                                  

Genetics 173:891-900.

March 13

Fernando Mendez

March 27

Murray Cox

April 3

Joe Schlecht

Bibliography: Joseph Schlecht, Matthew E. Kaplan, Kobus Barnard, Tatiana Karafet, Michael F. Hammer, Nirav C. Merchant

Machine Learning Approaches to Classifying Y Chromosome STR Data

April 10

Joe Watkins

Bibliography: Matthew Stephens and Peter Donnelly (2000)

Inference in molecular population genetics,

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 62:605-655

 

April 17

Mike Hammer

Bibliography: John E. Pool and Rasmus Nielsen (2007)

Population Size Changes Reshape Genetic Patterns of Diversity Evolution, 61:3001-3006