STAGE ISSS: Terri H. Beaty

Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with

Terri H. Beaty

Professor and Deputy Chair
Department of Epidemiology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
John Hopkins University

Talk Title:

Impact of Study Design in Genome Wide Association Studies

Abstract:

Unavailable

Speaker Profile:

Terri H. Beaty, PhD, is professor and deputy chair in the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan. Over her career Dr. Beaty has been interested in developing and implementing statistical methods to identify genetic factors contributing to the etiology of complex diseases, where both genes and environmental risk factors control risk. This scientific work falls into the field of genetic epidemiology, and draws on both the tools of statistical genetics and the study designs of epidemiology. Dr. Beaty has worked on a wide variety of disease topics (pulmonary disease, asthma, diabetes, cancer), but has a long-standing interest in birth defects, particularly oral clefts (the most common form of craniofacial malformation in humans). She has also recently developed a research interest in methods to detect genes controlling risk to infectious and parasitic diseases. Dr. Beaty will use examples from an international consortium to illustrate how complex and heterogeneous disorders can be approached in genome wide studies of association

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