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 | Daniel Weeks
Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America | | | Faculty Member: Genomics & Genetics > Medical Genetics [ since 9 July 2001 ] |
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Dr. Weeks received his Ph.D. in Biomathematics from UCLA in 1988, under the mentorship of Kenneth Lange. After post-doctoral training in statistical genetics with Jurg Ott at Columbia University, he joined the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. From 1994-1998, he served as Head of Statistical Genetics - Methods at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on developing new ways to map susceptibility genes involved in genetically complex diseases. He has made significant contributions to methodology development in statistical genetics as well as participated in applied collaborative linkage analyses of many diseases, including autism, diabetes, endometriosis, and age-related macular degeneration. He has also been active in developing and distributing many useful computer programs, including ones for simulation, linkage analysis, and error detection. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Human Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, and Genetic Epidemiology, and is active in education, both within his institution, where he is Program Director of a Statistical Genetics Training Program, and outside, where, for example, he co-leads an annual Wellcome Trust Advanced Course in statistical genetics. | Home page
http://watson.hgen.pitt.edu |
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