THE TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON METHODOLOGY OF TWIN AND FAMILY STUDIES: THE ADVANCED COURSE, MARCH 5TH - MARCH 9TH, 2007.

The next workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 5-9, 2007, with John Hewitt as Local Host and Lon Cardon, Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Oxford, UK, as Academic Director.

This advanced course is intended for those who have attended earlier workshops and/or who are already familiar with the statistical and genetic principles of univariate and simple multivariate analyses with sibling data, and who have an interest in QTL analysis in the context of twin and sibling studies as well as other designs.

The registration fee will be $350, payable by January 19, 2007. Thereafter, the registration fee will be $400. Details of local arrangements, registration, and accommodation are available from the workshop secretary, Kendra Locher.

A home page is on the World Wide Web at http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/workshop2007.

An outstanding international faculty roster includes:

Lon Cardon (Academic Director),

Jeff Barrett, David Evans, Jonathan Flint, William Valdar
Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics and University of Oxford, UK

Hermine Maes, Mike Neale,
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, VA

Goncalo Abecasis
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Dorret Boomsma, Meike Bartels, Danielle Posthuma
Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit, NL

Ben Neale
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

Pak Sham, Stacey Cherny

University of Hong Kong

Nick Martin, Sarah Medland, Kate Morley
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, AU

Shaun Purcell, Manuel Ferreira
Harvard University, MA

John Hewitt (Local Host), Matt McQueen, Jeff Lessem
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, CO

The course will include: the causes of human variation, statistical and genetic theory, basic principles of linkage and association analysis, identity by descent (IBD) and genetic covariance, estimating IBD from marker data, genotyping error, sibling analysis methods for QTL linkage analysis, regression methods for linkage analysis, multivariate phenotypes, association studies --- principles, population studies, family studies, power, single marker and haplotype based association methods, genome-wide association studies, power, Type 1 error in multiple testing, and animal models of behavior. Hands-on analysis will be an integral part of the course and will employ networked notebook computers. The schedule is available at: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/workshop2007/schedule.html

An application form can be printed from http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/workshop2007/registration.html and on-line registration is available at: https://ibg.colorado.edu/workshop/workshop2007/registration-online.html.

Further information may be obtained from John Hewitt, or the workshop secretary, Kendra Locher, IBG, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0447, USA; Telephone: 303-735-5440; FAX: 303-492-8063; E-mail: John.Hewitt@Colorado.edu or Kendra.Locher@Colorado.edu.

Minority students and scientists are especially encouraged to attend. Partial financial support for US minority participants is available by application to the local host, John Hewitt. Financial support for this workshop is provided by grant MH19918 from the National Institute of Mental Health.