Genetics 562                                               Population Genetics
Spring, 2001                                                    J. Felsenstein

                                   Syllabus
     Date    Topic                                             Reading

    
       3/26  Introduction; Hardy-Weinberg proportions           I.1-I.3
         27               " "                                    " "
         28  Multiple alleles, difft. sexes                     I.4, I.6
         30  Sex-linkage                                         I.7

        4/2  Linkage and linkage disequilibrium                  I.8
       3, 4  Natural Selection                                 II.1-II.2
          6  " "                                               II.4, II.5

          9  Polymorphisms and fitness                         II.6-II.8
         10  " " "                                             II.9-II.11
         11  " " "                                               " "
         13  Kin, group and species selection                    II.12

         16  Mutation                                         III.1-III.3
     17, 18  Maintenance of deleterious mutants (M. Kuhner)   III.4-III.6
         20  Migration, Clines (P. Beerli)                     IV.1-IV.11

     23, 24  " "                                                 " "
     25, 27  Inbreeding in pedigrees                           V.1-V.5

    30, 5/1  Regular systems of mating                     V.10-V.12, V.14
          2  Inbreeding depression                               V.13
          4  Genetic drift                                    VI.1-VI.4

          7  " "                                                 " "
          8  Effective population size (TBA)                  VI.5-VI.7
      9, 11  Neutral mutation theory (instructor for 9th TBA) VII.1-VII.2

         14  Repeated sequences                                 none
         15  Trees of genes                                      X.2
     16, 18  Molecular evolution                             VII.7, VII.8

     21, 22  Drift and other forces                     VII.4,VII.5,VII.8,VII.9
         23  Drift and other forces                            " " " "
         25  Genetics of quantitative characters              IX.1-IX.5

         28  HOLIDAY (Memorial Day; Folk Life Festival)
         29  Genetics of quantitative characters                 " "
         31  Components of variance, selection response       IX.6-IX.9
        6/1  Finding QTLs                                       (none)

Text: Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, by Joe Felsenstein
      publication to be arranged, hopfully about $20
Course web page: http://depts.washington.edu/genetics/courses/genet562/2001
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