Research Interests
Our current research interests are in the relationship between human
variation and human disease. Our group's research attempts to
understand the genetic basis of disease by analyzing human variation
data and attempting to discover functional variants which contribute
to disease. Our research is in the intersection of genetics and
genomics. We use techniques from genetics to identify genetic variants
which are associated to disease related phenotypes. Then we apply
techniques from genomics to attempt to understand the function of
these variants. While our goals are focused toward human disease, we
take advantage of the model organism systems, such as inbred mouse
strains and are currently working on developing genetic, genomic and
computational resources which allow the use of such model systems to
gain insights into human disease related penotypes.
See a recent talk about our research here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4842325192590573455.
