1 Introduction

This chapter provides an overview of omic data as well as the different types of association studies that can be carried out to study the impact of those omic datasets on complex diseases, quantitative traits or any other coditions. Tne chapter continues by providing an outline of the different publicy available databases that allow the users to analyze different omic data. It is illustrated how these data can be accessed using R. Finally, Bioconductor an R are briefly introduced.

The R code to reproduce the results and figures of this chapter can be found here.