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Bruce Weir

Bruce Weir
Bruce
S.
Weir
Professor , Biostatistics
Adjunct Professor , Genome Sciences
Adjunct Professor , Epidemiology
Director , Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics
Director , Institute for Public Health Genetics
Email
bsweir@uw.edu
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UW Location
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UW Tower
4333 Brooklyn Ave NE
15th Floor
Seattle, WA 98105
United States

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About

Bruce Weir develops statistical methodology for genetic data with an emphasis on allelic dependencies, population structure and relatedness, quantitative genetics, disease associations, and the use of genetic data for human identification. His most recent publication is: Aalbers S, Hipps MJ, Kennedy SR, Weir BS. 2020. Analyzing population structure for forensic STR markers in next   generation sequencing data. Forensic Science International:Genetics 49: Article 10236.

Education
PhD
Statistics and Genetics
North Carolina State University
1968
BSc(HONS)
Mathematics
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1965
Faculty Interests
Forensic Genetics
Faculty Courses
2020-21 Academic Year
Books

Weir BS. (Editor) 1995. Human Identification: The Use of DNA Markers. Kluwer, Amsterdam. 

Weir BS. 1996. Genetic Data Analysis II. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.

Evett IW, Weir BS. 1998. Interpreting DNA Evidence. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.

Fleming TR, Weir BS. (Editors) 2012. Proceedings of the Fourth Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials. Lecture Notes in Statistics 1205. Springer, New York.