GHEP Online School 2024: Workshop 1
Kinship and pedigree analysis: Methods and applications
course-ghep2024.Rmd
- Dates: October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2024
- Where: Online, as part of ISFG-GHEP Online School 2024
- Teachers: Magnus D. Vigeland and Thore Egeland
- Audience: Students, researchers and case workers in forensic genetics
Learning outcomes
- Classical concepts and methods of genetic relatedness
- Using QuickPed and other apps for pedigree analysis
- Using Familias software to perform kinship testing
- Methods for relationship inference and pedigree reconstruction
- Practical methods for disaster victim identification
Software preparation: R
Several exercises will use R. In order to do them, please install the following on your computer:
Run the following command in R to install the pedsuite packages:
install.packages("pedsuite")
Software preparation: Familias
Part of the course is based on kinship testing in the Familias software, which can be installed here: https://familias.no/download.
Schedule
The course runs each Monday of October 2024, from 16 to 20 (CEST). The following schedule is tentative:
Oct 7: Theory of relatedness
- 16:00–17:00 Introduction to pedigrees, QuickPed and R (MDV)
- 17:00–17:45 Exercises. (Solutions)
- 17:45–18:00 Break
- 18:00–19:00 Measures of relatedness (MDV)
- 19:00–19:45 Exercises. (Solutions)
- 19:45–20:00 Wrap-up
Oct 14: Kinship testing
- 16:00–17:00 Introduction to forensic kinship testing (TE)
- 17:00–17:45 Exercises
- 17:45–18:00 Break
- 18:00–19:00 Kinship testing with Familias (TE)
- 19:00–19:45 Exercises
- 19:45–20:00 Wrap-up