October 2, 2008

4-6 PM

Cannon Room, HMS Quad

Speaker: Mark J. Daly, Ph.D.

Title: “Genetics of Common Human Disease”

Question: What is the genetic basis of common human diseases like Crohn's disease?

Quantitative Method: Statistical Genetics

Medical Impact: Identification of pathways that may be targeted for curative therapies for common diseases.

Suggested Reading: Nature 437, 1299 - 320 (2005 Oct 27), “A haplotype map of the human genome.”

Nature Genetics 40, 955 - 962 (2008), "Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease."

Speaker URL: http://www.massgeneral.org/chgr/faculty_daly.htm