If the current project has piqued your interest in human migrations, I just learned of a conference that might also interest you (assuming you can find a way to get to Geneva in June). Information is available at
http://geneva.unige.ch/geneva2004/
On a related note, I've updated the course schedule to reflect the revised due date for Project #2. It is now due Monday, 5 April.. I also revised the due dates for Problems #4 & #5.
I have now posted notes on partitioning variance with WinBUGS (links from the 3/26 lecture page) and on the evolution of quantitative traits (links from the 3/29 and 3/31 lecture pages to the same set of notes). There is also a link to the complete code and data associated with the WinBUGS notes on the 3/26 lecture page.
I'll be handing back your last assignment today. The lowest score was 92 and both the median and the mode were 96. Kent graded question 4.
Robynn
Although I expect to spend much of Wednesday's lecture finishing up the ideas behing partitiioning the genetic variance that we started to talk about on Monday, I hope to get started on how we actually apply these ideas to real data on Wednesday. We'll be working from these notes for at least Wednesday and Friday, and probably part of Monday too.
I've posted the first set of notes on quantitative genetics. You'll find links to them on the detail page associated with Monday's lecture. You'll also find references and links for the next project. Go ahead and take a look at them if you're interested, but I won't be posting the assignment until Monday morning.
Have a nice weekend!
In case you're wondering if your TA will ever be done grading your last assignment... I've gone through and made comments on them, and will put numbers on them after I've met with Kent (since he is the one who decides the fit punishment for each crime). He won't be in until Fri., so I will finish them up over the weekend. I'll plan to give them back Mon.; if you want to know your grade sooner, send me an e-mail.
Robynn
In calculating the male and female chromosome frequencies don't bother with the genotype frequency priors I suggested. Treat the number of ST chromosomes as a binomial sample with total sample size equal to the total number of chromosomes.
Hi Robynn,
If you have an email list for the students in Pop. Gen., you might pass along to everyone the web site for the cointoss program I showed in class today:
http://lewis.eeb.uconn.edu/lewishome/software.html
It is called "Bayesian Coin Tosser".
Cheers,
Paul
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University of Connecticut
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In the interest of clearing things off my desk before spring break, I revised and uploaded notes on the coalescent for the lecture on 19 March. I doubt that anyone will look at them until that morning, but they're there now, if you want to take a peek.
Have a nice spring break!
Notes on natural selection, technically viability selection, and genetic drift are now posted. We'll finish up our discussion of migration, mutation, and drift on Friday and I'll finish (one way or the other) with a brief overview of the dynamics of natural selection in finite populations, i.e., when there's genetic drift.
Notes on mutation, migration, and drift are now available. You'll note that I've revised the lecture schedule in two ways:
