Statistical and quantitative genetics form the backbone of modern biological research by providing the mathematical framework to dissect complex traits. By integrating sophisticated statistical models ...

A collaboration including Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital’s Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) has produced a breakthrough in how to ...

The Mystra platform, developed over 10 years, offers biopharma partners proven analytical power to turn months of R&D into minutes, dramatically increasing the availability of quality genetic insights ...

Ahead of the 2024 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, ASHG congratulated and welcomed the 2024–2026 Human Genetics Scholars this August. The scholars include a group of trainees ...

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The next ISG workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 3rd-7th 2025. The course is planned to include sessions on: causes of variation; biometrical genetics; UNIX/R scripting; whole-genome ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies—one focused on ...

Researchers led by Dr. W. David Hill at the University of Edinburgh have identified a significant genetic correlation between childhood cognitive function and longevity, providing the first molecular ...

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Chad Shaw, a statistician with joint appointments at Rice and Baylor and a faculty member at the NRI. Shaw is also the director of Rice’s Data to Knowledge Lab. A collaboration between Rice University ...