Genomics of Human Populations

This section is open to BIOL graduate students only

This course covers topics in the field of human population genetics including human ancestry and admixture, human demography, linkage disequilibrium, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genetic architecture of human traits and diseases, natural selection in the human genome, and application of population genomics to the study of cancer and disease. The course includes lecture and recitation components with the latter geared to teaching students basic skills in population genomic data analysis.