Sai Chen

Sai Chen, Ph.D.
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Ph.D. Program
Bioinformatics Scientist
Illumina, Inc.

Chair

Dissertation Title

Statistical methods and analysis to identify disease-related variants from genetics studies

Research Interest

Advances in genotyping technology have greatly revolutionized the methodology in genetics research. Due to the dramatically decreasing cost of genotyping, millions of variants have been discovered from population-scale data. The findings provide a new insight into the human genome, and are continuously shaping our understanding of the genetic basis for disease. In this dissertation, I focus on three topics related to discovering disease-related variants in genetics studies in the aspects of method development and dataset analysis.

Current Placement

Illumina, Inc.