Human Genetics Center

 Research areas:

  • Genetics of cardiovascular disease
  • Genome variation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Genetic epidemiology
  • Computational biology
  • Molecular evolution
  • Computational genomics
  • Genome-wide linkage and association analyses
  • Population genetics theory
  • Statistical methods for DNA sequence analyses
  • Statistical and computational methods in human disease
  • Genes and mutations causing retinal diseases
  • Diabetes
  • Genotyping and DNA sequencing
  • Retinal pathophysiology
  • Quantitative genetics
  • Chronic diseases in Mexican-Americans