Our mission is to advance the understanding of genetically-related conditions through multi-disciplinary research.
The Centre is composed of scientific research groups that work to understand the genetic foundations of human variation and disease. Scientists in the Centre work in diverse fields, developing and applying statistical, computational, and experimental methods to a wide range of medical conditions. The main areas of research include bioinformatics, cardiovascular disease, genomics, immunity and inflammation, metabolism, neurogenetics, statistical genetics and transgenics.
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Scientists discover new genetic variant that increases the risk of stroke A genetic variant that increases the risk of a common type of stroke has been identified by scientists in a study published online in Nature Genetics. This is one of the few genetic variants to date to be associated with risk of stroke. Stroke is the second leading ...
Genetics study reveals how bacteria behind serious childhood disease evolve to evade vaccines Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and US to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. Scientists at the University of Oxford and at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in ...
Thursday 29th March, 2012
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
A series of presentations and discussion sessions exploring how genomic technologies, statistical and bioinformatic analysis and functional follow-up can lead to the successful identification of disease-causing variants.
Cancelled: Friday 17 February
Prof Deborah Nickerson
Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, (Northwest Genomics Centre), Seattle, USA