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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)
Bonus points
- To support cooperation between students in solving home
assignments an unconventional system is suggested.
- A student helped by fellow students may reward the helpers with up to 3 bonus points in total.
- A student can accumulate maximum 3 bonus points for helping others.
- These points count in full for grades 4 and 5. When applied to grade 3 the bonus points are reduced by half.
- The bonus points work only for the first scheduled exam.