Course Overview

Genome sequencing of domestic animals and advances in quantitative genetics have enable new approaches in animal breeding. This course will talk about recent advances in the area of quantitative genetics and genomics and the aplications in beef cattle breeding. The course will have the contribution of especialists in different areas.

Learning Achievement

Provide the principles of quantitative genetics aplied to genome selection and genomics, so the students can understand a contribute to the development of this new area.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Student participation and Exam.

Course schedule

The U.S. Beef Industry: Structure and Current Genetic Selection Programs; Priors in the Bayesian Alphabet; Developing Genomic Predictions: Training and Evaluation; Additive genomic relationship matrix and GBLUP; Haplotype-based models: BayesIM; Interpreting “genomic correlations” and pleiotropy; Tour of Genomics Center; Population structure in admixed populations; Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regression; GO enrichment analysis; MeSH enrichment analysis; GO / MeSH enrichment analysis in Bioconductor

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Luiz Lehmann Coutinho, Gerson Barreto Mour_o

Other information

University of Sao Paulo,Universidade de Campinas and Universidade Estadual Paulista

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