Chris Carlson, PhD

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

Assistant Member,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Contact Information
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave N., M4-B402
P.O. Bo 1024
Seattle, WA 98109-1024
Tel: 206-667-7034
Fax: 206-667-7850
ccarlson@fhcrc.org

Research Interests
Our laboratory focuses on analysis of correlations between genetic variation and common diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurological disease. Our lab uses in silico tools to identify statistical correlations between variation and disease, molecular biology benchwork to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms for these correlations, and molecular evolutionary analysis to understand the natural history of functional variants. The lab is currently focused on two major projects. The first extends our previous work on the genetic epidemiology of variation at the C reactive protein locus and the mechanisms by which these variants correlate with plasma CRP levels. The second seeks to identify evolutionarily advantageous polymorphisms responsible for strong, recent selective pressure on the human species, and to determine whether these evolutionarily important variants are important to public health in a modern environment.

Education
PhD, Genetics, Stanford University 1999

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