Introduction to the statistical analysis of genome-wide association studies

This short course is being organised and run by LongITools partner, the University of Surrey. An online version will run from 27th to 31st January 2025, and an in person edition will run in the last week of June or first week of July 2025 in Ferrara, Italy.

Since 2016, this course has had 11 editions and has trained over 530 scientists from around the globe.

Online, January 2025

Course Dates: 27th to 31st January 2025

Course Location: Online live/Distance Learning

Course Leader: Prof Inga Prokopenko

Course Lecturers: Prof Reedik Mägi – course co-leader (Estonia), Prof Krista Fischer (Estonia), Prof Andrew Morris (UK), Prof Inga Prokopenko (UK), Dr Ayse Demirkan (UK)

Attendance fee: (pound sterling) £900 academic /£1,100 non-academic rate covering the course registration fee for full-time 5-day teaching and access to the course materials/registration after the course.

Deadline for applications: Friday 20th December 2024 at 23.59 (GMT). Deadline for late applications Thursday 10th January 2025. Late applications will be considered with £200 increase in fees.

Fellowships: A limited number of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) -funded scholarships are available for young scientists in training from European countries. Preference will be given to ESHG members and researchers from countries which are disadvantaged economically, although scholarships are not limited to these groups. Scholarships will cover the full attendance fee only.

Deadline for Fellowship applications: Friday 20th December 2024 at 23.59 (GMT).

More information and how to apply for the online course is available on the University of Surrey website. Further information on the in-person course will be available in the near future.