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A new method called FLARE was developed by UW Professor of Biostatistics Sharon Browning because existing software for inferring local ancestry was not able to handle the increasingly large amounts of genetic data that are available.
Ting Ye, an assistant professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), a five-year $1.77 million grant that will fund Ye’s research group to develop innovative and advanced statistical methods to generate translational causal evidence from large-scale omics data.
The University of Washington Department of Biostatistics is seeking a new chair to lead a dedicated team of faculty, staff, and students who are passionate about developing and using rigorous quantitative methods to improve the well-being of communities in the United States and around the world.
PRIMED Consortium Advances Polygenic Risk Scores For Diverse Groups
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An international consortium founded to develop and evaluate methods to improve the use of polygenic risk scores (PRS) for predicting disease and health outcomes in populations of diverse ancestry has recently found some benefit in applying them to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Ken Rice, principal investigator of the consortium's coordinating center at the University of Washington and professor of biostatistics, is quoted.
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