http://ron.cs.columbia.edu/drupal en http://ron.cs.columbia.edu/drupal/node/77 <p>Elucidating common variants underlying complex human diseases is<br /> an important first step for implicating novel biological pathways, and<br /> holds the potential for future therapies.</p> <p>We have developed methods to map common and rare genetic<br /> variation to evolutionarily and biomedically relevant traits in large-<br /> scale populations: in particular, genome-wide association mapping<br /> (GWAS) in founder populations such as South Pacific Islanders and<br /> Ashkenazi Jews. In populations with reduced genetic, phenotypic and<br /> environmental heterogeneity, the connection between the genotype</p> <p><a href="http://ron.cs.columbia.edu/drupal/node/77" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://ron.cs.columbia.edu/drupal/node/77#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:44:40 +0000 mg2880 77 at http://ron.cs.columbia.edu/drupal