Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
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Research
My research group has three main foci: 1) using machine learning to understand the genetics of recent human evolution and disease, 2) integrating population genetics and structural biology, and 3) analyzing electronic health records (EHR) to yield insight into disease progression and heterogeneity. We pioneered the analysis of EHR data in evolutionary genomics, and this enabled us to demonstrate that DNA derived from interbreeding between Neanderthals and human ancestors influences diverse traits in many modern human populations.