The 1000 Genomes Project held a tutorial at ASHG 2012

The tutorial was held at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis from 7pm to 9:00pm on Wednesday 7th November

The 1000 Genomes Project released the sequence data and an integrated set of variants, genotypes, and haplotypes for the 1092 samples in the phase 1 set, and the sequence data for the phase 2 set. This tutorial describes the data sets, how to access them, and how to use them.

The topics that were covered are:

1. (15 min talk, 3 min questions) Description of the 1000 Genomes data – Mark DePristo [slides]
2. (15 min talk, 3 min questions) How to access the data – Laura Clarke [slides]
3. (15 min talk, 3 min questions) Structural variants – Ryan Mills [slides]
4. (15 min talk, 3 min questions) Population genetic and admixture analyses – Eimear Kenny [slides]
5. (15 min talk, 3 min questions) Functional analyses – Ekta Khurana [slides]
6. (15 min talk, 3 min questions) How to use the data in disease studies – Stephan Ripke
7. (12 min) Q&A

A poster was also presented on Wednesday 7th. A copy of the poster is also available on the ftp site

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