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Dan Nicolae is the D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has been a faculty member at the University since 1999, with appointments in Statistics since 1999 and in Medicine since 2006. His research focuses on developing statistical and computational methods to understand human genetic variation and its influence on the risk of complex traits, with an emphasis on asthma-related phenotypes. Currently, his focus is on statistical genetics, research centered around data integration and system-level approaches using large datasets that include clinical and environmental data alongside genetics and genomics data types such as DNA variation, gene expression (RNA-seq), and methylation microbiome.
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