The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of informal weekly discussions of basic genetics topics that relate to human populations and disease. Experts from across the Broad Institute community give in-depth introductions to the basic principles of complex trait genetics, including human genetic variation, genotyping, DNA sequencing methods, statistics, data analysis, and more.
Videos of these sessions are made freely available for viewing here and are geared toward a wide audience that includes research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and established investigators just entering the field.
If you'd like more information about the primers, or have suggestions for future topics, contact the seminar series organizer Chris Newton-Cheh via mpg_primer@broadinstitute.org.
The Broad Institute hosts these weekly seminar series.
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Jordan Smoller, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School “Phenothype Definition (With Tales From Psychiatry [video] , December 10, 2009 |
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Alkes Price, Research Affiliate, Broad Institute “Population Stratification in Disease Association Studies” [video] , December 3, 2009 |
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Mark Daly, Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute “The Human Haplotype Map and Beyond” [video] , November 19, 2009 |
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Josh Korn, Graduate Student, Broad Institute
“Copy Number Variation in the Human Genome” [video] , November 12, 2009 |
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Barbara Stranger, Associate Member, Broad Institute
“The Genetic Basis of Gene Expression” [video] , November 5, 2009 |
 | Chris Cotsapas, Research Affiliate, Broad Institute “The Genetic Basis of Gene Expression” [video] , November 5, 2009 |
 | Paul de Bakker, Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
“Understanding and Interpreting GWAS Data” [video] , October 29, 2009 |
 | Peter Kraft, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
“Gene-Environment and Gene-Gene Interactions” [video] , October 15, 2009 |
 | Shaun Purcell, Associate Member, Broad Institute “Analysis of Genome-Wide SNP Datasets" [video] , October 8, 2009 |
 | James Gusella, Associate Member, Broad Institute “Genetics in Mendelian Human Disease” [video] , October 1, 2009 |
 | Mark Daly, Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute “A Primer on Human Genetic Variation” [video] , September 24, 2009 |
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David Altshuler, Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute "Introduction to Complex Trait Genetics” [video] , September 17, 2009 |