• Spring 2026
• Location: Plant Sciences Hall (room 272)
• Time: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:00-9:50 am
• Office Hour: Thursday 12:15-1:00 pm (except for the first Thursday of the month)

Texts and Reading Materials

Required textbook

• Falconer & Mackay, Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

Free Online Materials

• Graham Coop, Population Genetics notes
• Basic R: Quick online reference for data input, basic statistics, and plots.
• STHDA: Statistical tools for high-throughput data analysis.
• R for Data Science: R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund.

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Schedule Spring 2026

The HTML slides will likely be posted on Sunday pm for the next week. The slides are subject to change before the class.

Week 1: Allele and Genotype Frequencies (Ch1)

• 01-14 (W):
  • Introduction [HTML]
  • Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium [HTML]
• 01-16 (F): Linkage Disequilibrium [HTML]

Week 2: Changes of Allele Frequency (Ch2 & Ch3)

• 01-19 (M): No Class - MLK Day
• 01-21 (W): Migration, Mutation, and Selection [HTML]
• 01-23 (F): Effectiveness of Selection [HTML]
  • HW1 assignment in Canvas (Due Next Friday)