Advances in Molecular Genetics and Functional Genomics

In recent years, major advances have been made in transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and particularly population genetics. Students undertaking this course will be introduced to recent advances in these areas. With more than 850 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) published by December 2010, now covering a vast number of diseases and phenotypes and often incorporating tens of thousands of subjects or, in some cases, more than 100 000 subjects, increasing statistical power to identify and replicate contributing loci is available.