[GenABEL-dev] publishing review tutorials?

[Yurii Aulchenko]

Dear All,

I would like to bring up a very interesting (this is how it appears to
me) issue initiated by MarcinK in a private talk.

We did quite some methodology work on documentation, tutorials, forum,
and this list. I presume we all agree that it would be great to get
some more credit for that. So why not transforming out efforts into
publications? The idea is that using GenABEL tutorials as the base we
can write a series of "review tutorials" (say, the tutorial part based
on the "GenABEL tutorial", and the review part based on
forum/JournalClub/individualExperience). For example, Marcin is
willing and ready to come up with a "review tutorial" on GWA analysis
in highly stratified populations; Maria is deep into the topic of GWA
data Quality Control [Maria, would you be willing to work on such
manuscript?]; also meta-analysis of GWA studies seems well-covered in
the "GenABEL tutorial" [would one volunteer to write this?]; not to
mention mixed models which are among my favorites. Any other topics
are more than welcome.

Would you approve this idea? -- in which case I will approach some
journals with pre-submission inquiry (draft attached after the
signature).

Please do comment on this idea.

best wishes,
Yurii

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Dear Sir or Madam,

We would like to make a preliminary request on the possibility to
publish a series of publications on genome-wide association (GWA)
studies in the format of "review tutorials" in *theJournalToAsk*. This
is somewhat new format, in which we aim to both providing theoretical
review of the subject and hands-on tutorial allowing technical
implementation. Our feeling is that this type of publications can be
very beneficial to the scientific community -- not only the general
insight and guidelines will be provided, but also technical details of
possible implementation will be given.

The topics we have in mind include

* Quality control for GWA studies
* GWA analysis of stratified population and dealing with population
stratification
* Meta-analysis of GWA studies
* Use of variance components models in GWA studies

Would *theJournalToAsk* be interested in publishing a series of such
"review tutorials"?

with best wishes,
on behalf of the GenABEL project,
Yurii Auchenko