Since 1987, a group of behavior geneticists have been teaching an annual methodology workshop on how to use state-of-the-art methods to analyze genetically informative data. In the early years, the focus was on analyzing twin and family data, using information of their known genetic relatedness to infer the role of genetic and environmental factors on phenotypic variation. With the rapid evolution of genotyping and sequencing technology and availability of measured genetic data, new methods to detect genetic variants associated with human traits were developed and became the focus of workshop teaching in alternate years. Over the years, many of the methodological advances in the field of statistical genetics have been direct outgrowths of the workshop, as evidence by the software and methodological publications authored by workshop faculty. We provide data and demographics of workshop attendees and evaluate the impact of the methodology workshops on scientific output in the field by evaluating the number of papers applying specific statistical genetic methodologies authored by individuals who have attended workshops.

自 1987 年以来，一群行为遗传学家一直在教授关于如何使用最先进的方法来分析遗传信息数据的年度方法论研讨会。早些年，重点是分析双胞胎和家庭数据，利用他们已知的遗传相关性信息来推断遗传和环境因素对表型变异的作用。随着基因分型和测序技术的快速发展以及测量遗传数据的可用性，开发了检测与人类特征相关的遗传变异的新方法，并成为隔年研讨会教学的重点。多年来，统计遗传学领域的许多方法论进步都是研讨会的直接产物，研讨会教师撰写的软件和方法论出版物就证明了这一点。