Workshop: Statistical Methods and Software for Forensic Genetics

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 13-15 2017.
Venue: Auditorio B (Monday and Tuesday) and Auditorio D (Wednesday). School of Medicine, ITESM Campus Monterrey.

Teacher: Thore Egeland, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Oslo University Hospital. thore.egeland@gmail.com
Organisers: Graciela González (CIMAT), Augusto Rojas (ITESM) and José Ulises Márquez Urbina (CONACYT-CIMAT).

Please email Pavel Hipolito at pavelh@cimat.mx to register, see Spanish announcement.
Final version: Nov 16 2017.

• Nov 13, 3:00pm - 6:15pm: Lectures Basic genetics and statistics. I.1, and Weight of evidence. I.2. Exercises not requiring computer: 1, 3, 4. Lecture: Likelihood Ratio (LR) properties. I.3.
• Nov 14, 3:00pm - 6:15pm: Applications and demonstration of software.
• Familias. II.1. Accounting for Inbreeding. II.2, Exercise 3 (handout), and Complications: mutations,... II.3.
• Adoption, human trafficking case, GHEP Exercise 2017, The Missing Grandchildren of Argentina.
• Nov 15, 3:00pm - 6:15pm: R. Theoretical and hands on computer exercises based on freely available software.
  
  • Lecture R intro. II.4. ( p. 1-4,17), R commands . Lecture: Mixtures with relatives relMix. II.5. Demo input files.
  Participants who would like to do computer exercises should bring a laptop with Familias (Windows version), R , and the R libraries Familias (R version), and paramlink installed. Please download the material linked below before the workshop:
  • Exercises:. 2.1-2.7, 2.9, 2.14, 3.2, 5.1, 8.5, 8.6. Remaining exercises as time permits. Solutions .
  • Input files needed for some of the Familias (Windows version) exercises: Ch2Input.zip
    
  • Exercises not requiring computer: 3,5, 6. Remaining exercises as time permits. Solutions .