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              ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY, RESEARCH SECTION
               HALF-DAY MEETING ON STATISTICAL GENETICS
                          CALL FOR PAPERS

   The Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society is planning
   a half-day extended ordinary meeting on STATISTICAL MODELLING AND
   ANALYSIS OF GENETIC DATA. The aim is to bring together statisticians
   and quantitiative biological or biomedical scientists working in this
   exciting area.
   In the tradition of RSS Ordinary Meetings, papers presented at the
   meeting will be published in JRSS, with discussion.

   Possible topics of particular interest to the meeting organisers
   include, but are not restricted to, the following:

      . statistical analysis of micro-array data

      . modelling and inference for phylogenetic trees

      . genetic epidemiology

      . statistical approaches to sequencing

   The meeting is planned to take place in London in May 2002.
   Key deadlines are the following:

      . authors who wish to present a paper must submit a single-page
      abstract by 31 March 2001

      . authors of selected abstracts will then be invited to submit
      a full paper of about 10 to 15 journal pages by 31 August 2001

      . papers will be subject to refereeing, with feedback to authors
      by 30 November 2001

      . final versions of accepted papers will be required by 31
      January 2002.

   If you would like to present a paper at this meeting, please
   send your single-page abstract BY 31 MARCH 2001 to the Research
   Section Secretary:

      Jon Forster
      Department of Mathematics
      University of Southampton
      Highfield
      Southampton
      SO17 1BJ
      UK

   Abstracts may be submitted on paper, or electronically
(to J.J.Forster@maths.soton.ac.uk) as LaTeX or postscript files.