Bio/Research
Our group aims to characterize the amount and patterns of genetic variation in human populations, and to elucidate the forces that shape and maintain this variation. Forces such as demographic change or population structure exert genome-wide effects, while others such as natural selection result ...
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Bio/Research
Our group aims to characterize the amount and patterns of genetic variation in human populations, and to elucidate the forces that shape and maintain this variation. Forces such as demographic change or population structure exert genome-wide effects, while others such as natural selection result in locus-specific effects. As greater attention is focused on dissecting the genetic bases of common diseases, an understanding of the patterns of human sequence variation is recognized as a critical step toward improved approaches to disease mapping. Our group takes advantage of the diverse intellectual environment at the University of Chicago to integrate the knowledge from population genetics and disease mapping studies.
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