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William Anderson

Samuli Ripatti, PhD is a Professor of Biometry in the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at the University of Helsinki.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Samuli Ripatti

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What prompted you to start working on this project?  SR: When discussing the potential clinical utility of polygenic risk scores, a typical question from the audience is, “Why bother testing your genetic risk profile when the role of genetic risk can simply be measured using a... Read More

Jingjing Yang, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics at the Emory University School of Medicine and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Jingjing Yang

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   JY: This project was motivated by my previous work about developing a Bayesian Functional GWAS (BFGWAS) method to account for non-overlapped categorical functional annotation for multivariate GWAS. Our previous work of the initial BFGWAS method has shown the advantages of accounting... Read More

Xiaoquan (William) Wen, PhD is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics at the University of Michigan.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Xiaoquan (William) Wen

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? WW: This project is motivated by our long-term interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms of complex diseases using genetic data. In the past few years, we have witnessed many successes in gaining biological insights by combining molecular... Read More