Update GenoomCentrum Maastricht

 

 

 

TERA-MEETING in Maastricht September 16^th.

 

The TERA name has been chosen to designate a special regrouping of specific

Centers, Institutes or Universities belonging to Euregio, namely so far,

GIGA and the University of Liege, the Genome Center and the University of

Maastricht, the Fraunhofer IME and the University of Aachen. The main goal

of TERA meetings is to get researchers working on or interested in a

specific topic to meet, discuss and possibly undertake collaborations.

 

 

TOPIC: QTL-mapping

 

From Liege there will be presentations from the group of Michel Georges:

 

1. Polar overdominance supports the transinteraction between the products

of reciprocally imprinted genes. C. Charlier.

2. Towards identifying QTL for susceptibility to cystic ovarian disease using

whole genome associations by DNA pooling. X. Hubin.

3. Successful positional cloning of structural and regulatory mutations

underlying QTL in livestock. M. Georges.

 

From the University of Maastricht:

 

1. Positional cloning in humans. B. Vlietinck.
2. QTL-mapping in familial combined hyperlipidemia. S. Meex.