A Practical Guide to Genome-Wide Association Studies

David Goldstein

Introduction of GWA: infectious disease as an example.

Kevin Shianna

Genotyping and quality control

Dongliang Ge

Efficient data handling: from raw output to standard PED/MAP.
Quality control: cryptic relatedness and gender misclassification.

Lunch

Mike Weale

Population stratification.

Dongliang Ge

Association testing: getting the statistics
Results annotation and interpretation: WGAViewer software;
Real-world example: published in Science. 2007 (5840):944-7; or user-provided.
Introduction of the software that participants will take home with them: Chip2PCA, WGAViewer.