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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Epidemiological Studies

Lazaros Belbasis and Vanesa Bellou

2. Key Concepts in Genetic Epidemiology

Kalliope Panoutsopoulou and Eleanor Wheeler

3. Quality Control of Common and Rare Variants

Kalliope Panoutsopoulou and Klaudia Walter

4. Genome Wide Association Studies

Abbas Dehghan

5. Assessing Rare Variation in Complex Traits

Karoline Kuchenbaecker and Emil Vincent Rosenbaum Appel

6. Meta-analysis of Common and Rare Variants

Kyriaki Michailidou

7. Gene-gene and Gene-environment Interactions

Andrew T. DeWan

8. Genetic Association in the HLA Region

Loukas Moutsianas and Javier Gutierrez-Achury

9. Novel Methods for Family-based Genetic Studies

Qi Yan

10. Methods for Polygenic Traits

Raha Pazoki

11. Multivariate Methods for Meta-analysis of Genetic Association Studies

Niki L. Dimou, Katerina G. Pantavou, Georgia G. Braliou, and Pantelis G. Bagos

12. Methods of Analysis and Meta-Analysis for Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes
Panagiota I Kontou, Athanasia Pavlopoulou, and Pantelis G. Bagos

13. A Primer in Mendelian Randomization Methodology with a Focus on Utilizing Published Summary Association Data

Niki L. Dimou and Konstantinos K. Tsilidis

14. Copy Number Variation

Aurélien Macé, Zoltán Kutalik, and Armand Valsesia

15. From Identification to Function: Current Strategies to Prioritise and Follow-Up GWAS Results

Antonio J Berlanga-Taylor

16. Translating Human Genetics into Novel Drug Targets

Karol Estrada