Course Materials: HGEN 603 [Fall 2012] | Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

Topics for 2012 Workshop

Website: OpenMx
Text: Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families by Neale & Cardon, 1992 revision.
Classic Mx Manual: Mx: Statistical Modeling by Neale, Boker, Xie & Maes, 2006.

Number	Lecture Topic	Presentation/Media	Notes and Examples
01	Introduction to R		Revised R for OpenMx Reference Key
02	Introduction to OpenMx	Revised Introduction of the Documentation	New Beginners Guide Script Alternative Approaches Script Problem Set 3
03	Matrix Algebra & Optimization		Matrix Algebra
04	Saturated Twin Modeling	First OpenMx Experience	Univariate Twin Saturated Continuous Data -Matrix Univariate Twin Saturated Continuous Data -Matrix Annotated Univariate Twin Saturated Binary Data -Matrix Univariate Twin Saturated Ordinal Data -Matrix
05	Univariate Twin Modeling	Heterogeneity Testing	Univariate Twin Continuous -Matrix ACE Univariate Twin Continuous -Matrix Annotated ADE Univariate Twin Binary -Matrix Univariate Twin Ordinal -Matrix
06	Heterogeneity Twin Modeling		Univariate Twin Continuous -Matrix Univariate Twin Continuous Males -Matrix Univariate Twin Continuous Females -Matrix Heterogeneity Twin Continuous -Matrix Alternative Heterogeneity Twin Continuous -Matrix
07	ACE Model from Scratch		Univariate Twin Model – Simulated Data
08	Helper Functions		Gen Epi Helper Functions