Differences between genetics programs

[deep_lazy]

Hi everyone!

I'm currently interested in quantitative genetics and want to know about the differences between different programs.

After some googling and conversation with my undergrad advisor (he finished his phd in a bioinformatics program), I've learned that there are quite many programs involved in quantitative genetics.

Those that I thought were relavent with me were biostatistics (mostly under public health departments), epidemiology (also under sphs), interdisciplinay programs (bioinformatics, genome sciences etc), biological departments, medical departments.

What are the major differences between them? May be it's more appropriate to ask the differences between schools than to ask the differences between departments. Whichever is the case, I will be very thankful for a help.

 

[palyndrone]

You're right that each school will run its programs differently, even between related departments! You'll get the best idea of what kind of research a program does by reading the faculty profiles and the first-year student activities. You might find a few PIs/labs doing quant genetics that you think are a good match for you, but they could all be in programs with different names or organization styles. Maybe start out finding a few universities with big public health/med schools or genetics programs (Johns Hopkins, Harvard, UW-Madison, etc) and directly compare the programs they have to see which ones apply more to your research interests, so you can narrow down your search.