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Medical and Population Genetics Primer
January 22, 2026
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Peng Gao
Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Affiliate Faculty, Broad Institute

Why Genomics Needs Exposomics to Solve the Puzzle

The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of informal weekly discussions of basic genetics topics that relate to human populations and diseases. Experts from across the Broad Institute community give in-depth introductions to the basic principles of complex trait genetics, including human genetic variation, genotyping, DNA sequencing methods, statistics, data analysis, and more.

Videos of these sessions are made freely available for viewing here and are geared toward a wide audience that includes research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established investigators just entering the field.

-Program in Medical Population Genetics (broadinstitute.org/node/224/)

-Primer videos (broadinstitute.org/node/1339/)

For more information, visit: broadinstitute.org

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