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Course TMS106: Population genetics

Everything below corresponds to the third edition of the text book.
Lecture notes
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Weeks 1-2. HWE and inbreeding coefficient, Ch. 1-4. Download here: ps and pdf
Weeks 3-4. Mutation, migration, and selection, Ch. 5-6. Download here: ps and pdf
Weeks 4-5. Random genetic drift, Ch. 7. Download here: ps and pdf
Weeks 5-6. Molecular population genetics, Ch. 8. Download here: ps and pdf
Weeks 6-7. Quantitative genetics, Ch. 9. Download here: ps and pdf
Home assignments
Solving computational exercises will be an important part of the course.
Students will be asked to do weekly home assignments according to the folowing list.
These are not to be handed in or graded.
Weeks 1-2.
HA-1: 1.6, 1.12, 1.14, 2.7, 2.8, 2.13, 3.1, 3.2-3.13, 3.15-3.17
HA-2: 4.1, 4.3-4.5, 4.7-4.9, 4.13, 4.15-4.17, 4.20, 4.21b
Weeks 3-4.
HA-3: 5.6-5.11, 5.18-5.19
HA-4: 6.2-6.5, 6.6a, 6.8-6.9, 6.11-6.15, 6.17-6.20
Weeks 4-5.
HA-5: 5.12-5.14, 5.16, 5.17, 5.21
HA-6: 7.1-7.8, 7.10-7.14
Weeks 5-6.
HA-7: 2.12, 8.1, 8.3-8.10, 8.11-8.12
Weeks 6-7.
HA-8: 9.1-9.11, 9.14-9.17, 4.14 (coeff. of relationship = coeff. of coancestry; answer: 1/32)