Date: September 9, 2026
Instructors: Peter Kraft, Xueyao Wu
Topics Covered
The first session in the Workshop will include an introductory overview of the course and genetic epidemiology, a review of very basic molecular and population genetics, and a hands-on tutorial on managing genome-wide association study (GWAS) data and performing simple quality control and assessment analyses.
Recommended Readings/Videos
- Review of human molecular genetics
- Sue Ingles, Basic Concepts of Molecular Genetics, from Duncan Thomas’ Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology
- Overview of GWAS and post-GWAS analyses
- Uffelmann et al. (2021), Genome-wide association studies