Research Areas

HLA ANALYSIS We are developing methods to perform HLA typing in diverse populations, and characterize their associations with complex traits and disease.	GENOME PRIVACY We are studying best ways to protect the privacy of individuals while allowing authorized researchers to compute with sensitive data.	ANCESTRY-AWARE POLYGENIC RISK SCORES We are developing models that consider each individual’s unique patchwork of ancestry to accurately predict disease risk.
SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH We are developing methods that incorporate factors like genetics, ancestry, socioeconomic factors, and environmental factors for health evaluation in diverse populations.	DISTRIBUTED ANALYTICS We are developing algorithms that allows us to compute with data that are not located at a central database, but instead are distributed across different databases.	TANDEM REPEATS CAST is leveraging methods to analyze highly polymorphic tandem repeats in diverse populations, and understand their role in medically relevant complex traits.