Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics

该奖项为参加华盛顿大学统计遗传学年度暑期学院的学生提供学费和旅行奖学金。该研究所由一系列短期课程组成，旨在向遗传学和有关领域的研究人员介绍目前的统计分析方法，并向统计学研究人员介绍现代遗传数据所提供的机会。课程涵盖遗传学和统计学的基本概念，然后讨论在进化生物学、农业和医学领域的应用。高级主题的统计方法和统计计算也包括在内。基因数据被用来解释进化史，定位影响动植物经济性状或人类疾病状态的基因。这些数据也用于个人识别或预测药物的不良反应。近年来，基因数据的数量和复杂性都呈爆炸式增长，首先是人类基因组计划的完成，现在是人类和其他物种完整DNA序列测定的可能性。这种爆炸式增长给管理和解释基因数据带来了挑战，统计遗传学暑期研究所邀请了来自世界各地的专家来教授新的统计方法，这些方法将使人们从数据中获得充分的好处。

This award provides tuition and travel scholarships for students to attend the annual Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at the University of Washington. The Institute consists of a series of short courses designed to introduce researchers in genetics and related fields to current methods of statistical analysis and to introduce researchers in statistics to the opportunities presented by modern genetic data. The courses cover basic concepts in genetics and statistics and then address areas of application in evolutionary biology, agriculture and medicine. Advanced topics in statistical methods and statistical computing are also covered. Genetic data are being used to explain evolutionary histories, to locate the genes that affect economic traits in plants and animals or disease status in humans. These data are also used for individual identification or to predict adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals. The amount and complexity of genetic data have exploded in recent years, first with completion of the human genome project and now with the possibility of affordable determination of the complete DNA sequence of humans and other species. This explosion has led to challenges in managing and interpreting genetic data, and the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics brings experts from around the world to teach the new statistical approaches that will allow full benefit to be gained from the data.