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Research in our lab focuses on the inter-individual genomic diversity, and the impact of genomic variation.

 

Mobile DNA Element Biology

Mobile DNA elements account for at least 40%-50% of the content of mammalian genomes, including human…

Disease Gene Identification

Annotating function variants, assessing the likelihood a variant’s impact, and identifying candidate disease-causing genes…

Human Population
History

A good understanding of human evolution history can help us interpret the distributions of rare and common disease causing alleles…

Recent News

Welcome new lab members

We are welcoming several new members for the fall. Jumaporn (Ying) Sonongbua is a visiting PhD student from Thailand under the Fulbright program. Lionel Sequeira and Nazir Qureshi are undergraduate … Read More

New Grant: Disease Gene Discovery on Gene Interaction Networks

In collaboration with Dr. Min Xu at the Department of Statistics, we are awarded a Life Sciences Alliance Pilot Seed Funding grant from the Life Sciences Alliance Task Force at … Read More

Jason received Bernstein Scholarship

Jason received the highly-competitive David and Dorothy Bernstein Endowed Scholarship for Summer Research and will work on the active-module identification method development in the summer. Congratulations Jason!

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