Statistics in Genetics

The field of statistical genetics is growing and expanding. The papers in this volume are contributions by some of the leading researchers in the field. Topics covered include DNA sequence matching and issues related to forensics, statistical problems of modeling phylogenies and inferential difficulties related to the complex tree structures produced, as well as the method of coalecence, and human genetics, including the identification of disease genes, and the genetics of cancer.

Inhalt
Forensics.- The DNA typing controversy and NRC II.- In dispraise of inconsistent DNA relative frequency estimates.- Quantifying the genetic structure of populations with application to paternity calculations.- Population Genetics.- Coalescent theory and its applications in population genetics.- Phylogenies: An overview.- Detecting linked genomic mutations.- Human Genetics.- Biological and statistical studies for diseases involving mtDNA mutations.- Statistical methods in human genetics.- The affected-pedigree-member method revisited under population stratification.- Triangle constraints for sib-pair identity by descent probabilities under a general multilocus model for disease susceptibility.- A statistical analysis of cancer genome variation.- List of participants.