Teaching Material



Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, October-December 2023.


Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, October-December 2022.

Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, October-December 2021.

Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, October-December 2020.

Click here for Gene-Gene interacton (Epistasis) Exercise.

Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, November-December 2019.

Link to Workshop on Methods for Genome-wide Association Studies, 25th May 2017, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Click here for material for the Antwerp (April 2016) course

Click here for material for the Rotterdam (February 2014) course

Click here for Toronto (June 2013) Exercise 1 (Penalized Regression).

Click here for Toronto (June 2013) Exercise 2 (EMIM).


Link to Workshop on Genetic Studies in the Pakistani Population 5th-9th July 2010, Newcastle University


Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, October-December 2012.

Click here for exercises for the MRes Module MMB8014 (Genetics of Common Disease), Newcastle, November/December 2011.

Click here for case/control exercises using PLINK, R (DGCgenetics library) and UNPHASED (running under linux).

Click here for case/control exercises using R (DGCgenetics library) and Unphased (running under linux).

Click here for family-based association exercise using UNPHASED (running under linux).

Click here for family-based exercises using R (DGCgenetics library, running under linux).

Click here for case/control and case-only exercises using R (running under linux).

Click here for case/control exercises using Stata and R (running under linux).

Click here for family-based association exercises using Stata and R (running under linux).



Click here for exercises for the MSc in Medical Genetics, Newcastle, November 2008.

Click here for exercises for the Rotterdam course in Model-free Analysis (GE05), March 2008.

Click here for exercises for the MSc in Medical Genetics, Newcastle, Feb 8th 2008.

Click here for exercises for the European School of Genetic Medicine: 3rd Course in Statistical Genetic Analysis of Complex Phenotypes, June 24th-27th 2007, Bertinoro di Romagna, Italy.

Click here for exercises for the MSc in Medical Genetics, Newcastle, Feb 22nd 2007.

Click here for exercises for the Workshop on Genetic Association Studies, Jan 24th-25th 2007, Shaheed Beheshti Medical University, Iran.

Click here for exercises for the European School of Genetic Medicine: 3rd Course in Statistical Genetic Analysis of Complex Phenotypes, June 24th-27th 2007, Berti noro di Romagna, Italy.

Click here for exercises for the MSc in Medical Genetics, Newcastle, Feb 22nd 2007.

Click here for exercises for the Workshop on Genetic Association Studies, Jan 24th-25th 2007, Shaheed Beheshti Medical University, Iran.

Click here for exercises for the Wellcome Trust Advanced Course on Design and Analysis of Genetic-Based Association Studies, Oct 3rd-7th 2006, Hinxton, UK.

Click here for exercises for the European School of Genetic Medicine, May 3rd-5th 2006, Bertinoro di Romagna, Italy.