McGill's Co-Curricular Record (CCR) is becoming the new Student Experience Record (SER), which will be launched in Fall 2025 in the myFuture platform. This change will enhance the way we recognize and document student learning experiences both inside and outside the classroom. See more information about the SER here.

August 1 is the last day to submit participation/attendance lists for activities that happened before July 1, 2025. Any participant lists received after August 1 will not be processed.

Event

Polygenic Risk Scores

Thursday, August 14, 2025 13:00to17:00
Education Building 3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
Polygenic Risk Scores

MyInvolvement pages are for in-person attendees only. To register for the online session, please use the Microsoft Forms link:

Participants that are not part of the McGill Community are also invited to register with the Microsoft Forms link.

 

This 4-hour workshop provides participants with a fundamental understanding and introductory hands-on experience in using GWAS and PRS for human genetics studies. Participants will have the opportunity to work directly with genetic data and develop their computational skills. The workshop will also provide scripts to perform basic GWAS and PRS analyses.   By the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Understand the fundamentals of GWAS and PRS (i.e.: why and how they are used).
- Be able to access and interpret GWAS summary statistics.
- Compute PRS and interpret results.
- Know the pitfalls and limitations of GWAS and PRS studies.   
Prerequires:
- Basic familiarity with R programming and the command line.
- Preinstallation of the following software: R, RStudio, and Quarto.  

**IMPORTANT NOTICE: Attendance for McGill graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is subsidized by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. All other attendees such as undergraduate students, interns and/or graduate students from other institutions are required to purchase a ticket to cover organizational and staffing costs. To complete your registration, you must e-transfer $10 (undergraduate student/trainee) $25 (staff) or $100 (faculty) to workshop-micm [at] mcgill.ca within 24 hours of RSVP'ing to this event. If we do not receive your e-transfer, you will have given up your spot.

Online Event Instructions

MyInvolvement pages are for in-person attendees only. To register for the online session, please use the Microsoft Forms link.

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