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Course TMS106: Population genetics

Lecture notes, Reading assignments, and Home exercises

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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. HWE and inbreeding coefficient (ps and pdf).
Read Ch. 1, 2, 6.
Solve 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1.14, 2.1-2.3, 2.6, 2.7, 2.12, 2.15, 6.2,6.3, 6.7, 6.9, 6.16, 6.17, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24, 6.28.
Weeks 3-4. Mutation, migration, and selection (ps and pdf).
Read Ch. 4.1, 5.
Solve 4.1, 4.3, 4.8-4.13, 5.3, 5.5-5.18.
Weeks 4-5. Random genetic drift (ps and pdf).
Read Ch. 3, 4.2-4.4.
Solve 3.4-3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.15-3.16
Weeks 5-6. Molecular population genetics (ps and pdf).
Read Ch. 7.
Solve 1.13, 3.18, 3.19, 3.21, 4.14-4.16, 4.18, 7.1, 7.4-7.7, 7.11, 7.13-7.16
Weeks 6-7. Quantitative genetics (ps and pdf).
Read Ch. 8.
Solve 8.6-8.10, 8.14