“Many important traits in livestock, agriculture and human health have a quantitative genetic inheritance. Great advances have been achieved in genetics and statistics, which provided analytical methodologies (i.e. genome-wide prediction) that permit a better understanding and prediction of these complex traits. The objective of this workshop is to present and discuss recent results and theoretical…
The German Research Foundation (DFG) summarized the current situation for clinical research at German hospitals in a report. No news, but at least they request a fundamental change to maintain and raise research quality and quantity …
Thomas Winkler has published a fancy new R package called “EasyStrata” which features many convenient functions for genome-wide association analysis (especially stratified meta-analysis) (the name says it all …).
Nobody doubts that R (r-project.org) is a great statistical language and analysis system, but hey, developers, could you please … 1) create a modern website (the present one is so old school that I wonder why you did not use animated gifs for bullet points) … just look at what the bioconductor guys do at…
“Qualified researchers can now for the first time access data from one of the United States’ largest and most diverse genomics projects—the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Aging (GERA). The GERA cohort, at Kaiser Permanente Northern California system, has data on 78,000 members. You can apply to use these data in your research.” [3] 1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000674.v1.p1…