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[[Media: Eye_color_3.pdf |Pigmentation Paper]] and accompanying [[Pigmentation.xlsx |SNP Spreadsheet]] | [[Media: Eye_color_3.pdf |Pigmentation Paper]] and accompanying [[Media: Pigmentation.xlsx |SNP Spreadsheet]] | ||
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Revision as of 20:36, 8 December 2009
Bold textHey! So in order to make it easier and more accessible, we have moved all discussion surrounding the "Biology Aspect" of our potential project to this page.
Enjoy!
Contact Information
- Ridhi Tariyal (ridhitariyal@gmail.com)
- Jackie Nkuebe (jnnkuebe@fas.harvard.edu)
- Joseph Torella (jtorella@gmail.com)
- Anugraha Raman (amraman@fas.harvard.edu)
- Anna Turetsky (turetsky@fas.harvard.edu)
Group Description
1. Coming up with concrete examples of epistatic interactions in polygenic traits.
2. Developing a method (in conjunction with the math modeling group) to accurately predict the correlation between disease risk and SNP "hierarchy" in human disease.
3. Determining the feasibility of given models.
Final Progress
Relevant Literature
Pigmentation Paper and accompanying SNP Spreadsheet
Presentations
Tool for finding SNPs and Relevant Literature
Formulated Data Set
We attempted to get genomes of actual people accompanied by phenotypic data; however we were unable to get that. The author of the eye color study told us that if we wrote a proposal we would most likely be able to obtain this data ( See Rotterdam Proposal Section)
In order to aid the modeling group we created data sets. The data set shown below is one for eye color. Taking 20 individuals with twelve different SNPs inmportant to eye color we created a genotypic matrix. For each SNP, the individual could be homozygous dominant, heterozygous, homozygous recessive. In order to accomidate for all three cases we listed for each SNP 2 categories of homozygous dominant and heterozygous. We marked 0 if they didn't have the trait and 1 if they did have the trait. By process of elimination, or by the presence of a one we could accomadate for three possibilies using a binary system.
We then looked at the phenotypes yielded by each row. In this case blue, brown, intermediate. We then devised simple mathematical rules using all SNPs in question to come up with values. Ranges of values were then correlated with different phenotypes. The goal of the modeling team is to see if they can generate these rules using their model.
Rotterdam Proposal Ridhi met with Dr.Lui Proposal
