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Benjamin Voight is a Professor in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in statistical genetics, computational biology, and population genetics, particularly focusing on the biological underpinnings and evolutionary history of human traits related to complex diseases. His research aims to understand metabolic and cardiovascular phenotypes in human populations through the development of computational and statistical tools based on principles of population biology and quantitative genetics. The lab uses genetic data from a wide array of human genomes to address population genetic questions and demographic events. Current research includes mapping risk alleles for diseases such as type-2 diabetes and coronary heart disease and performing causal inference studies using a Mendelian randomization framework. The lab is engaged in the application of novel methodologies for functional characterization of causal variants and identifying selective pressures in the human genome, with a strong emphasis on large-scale genomic studies, including those from the Million Veteran Program. Voight continues to seek enthusiastic students and researchers to join his lab for future projects related to computational sciences and genetic data analysis.
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