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This option combines the main course and computational lab components of HGV. HGV exposes students to the power of genomic studies for understanding human evolutionary history, biological traits, and genetic conditions. HGV incorporates basic population genetics, direct-to-consumer DNA tests, and emerging research on human populations and their ancestors. What does real human genomic data look like? How are these data analyzed in practice? Supplementing the main course, the computational lab component will explore public datasets and bioinformatic tools used to analyze human genomic data to better understand how patterns in these data can be used to test hypotheses about evolution and human phenotypes. This course is offered in spring terms only.