NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 計量遺傳學(6246)
(Eng.) Quantitative Genetics
Offering Dept Department of Animal Science
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher CHEN CHIH-FENG
Department Department of Animal Science/Graduate Language English Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description Quantitative genetics is concerned with the inheritance of those differences between individuals that are of degree rather than of kind, quantitative rather than qualitative. In this course, we will study the methods in quantitative genetics differ from those employed in Mendelian genetics.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
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Discussion
Lecturing
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction of quantitative genetics
Week 2 Genetic properties of populations
Week 3 Continuous variation
Week 4 Values and means
Week 5 Variance
Week 6 Resemblance between relatives genetic covariance
Week 7 Heritability
Week 8 Selection: The response and its prediction response to selection
Week 9 Selection: The results of experiments
Week 10 Selection: information from relatives
Week 11 Inbreeding and crossbreeding: changes of mean value
Week 12 Inbreeding and crossbreeding: changes of variance
Week 13 Inbreeding and crossbreeding: applications
Week 14 Scale
Week 15 Threshold characters
Week 16 Correlated characters
Week 17 Quantitative trait loci
Week 18 Oral presentation
Evaluation
assignment(50%),oral presentation(50%)
Textbook & other References
1.計量遺傳學入門,李淵百譯,茂昌圖書有限公司。
2.Quantitative genetics, fourth edition, D.S. Falconer, and T.F.C. Mackay.
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