Recent advances in genetic association studies

Breakfast

Kinship, heritability and genetic effect sizes

David Balding, Institute of Genetics,University College London, England

Coffee break

Genome-wide association mapping to candidate polymorphism resolution in the unsequenced barley genome

Jordi Comadran,The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland

Buffet (free BUT limited to 50 participants, on a first-registered, first-served basis)

On the use of evolutionary information in haplotype association tests - coalescent-based and phylogeny-based tests

Claire Bardel, UMR CNRS 5558, Laboratoire de biométrie et biologie évolutive, équipe biostatistiques - santé, Lyon

Segregation / linkage / association: a graphical model point of view - IBS- IBD-based approaches

Gregory Nuel, MAP5 - UMR CNRS 8145, Université Paris Descartes, Paris

Coffee break

Genome Wide Association Studies in plants: strategy implemented in Arabidopsis thaliana

Vincent Segura, INRA Orléans, invited researcher at the Nordborg Group - Population Genetics, GMI, Gregor Mendel Institute for Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria

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