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The following are students who have received their Ph.D from the University of Washington with thesis work in statistical genetics. For additions, deletions, and ammendments, please email Elizabeth Thompson.
Note: The majority of these students are not graduates of the Statistics and Biostatistics PhD Pathways in Statistical Genetics. Those who are so are indicated by "*".

  • * Amy Anderson: Statistics, 2003. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF RELATED RECOMBINANT LINES
    Current position; Biostatistics, University of Washington.
  • Eric Anderson: QERM, 2001. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR INFERENCE IN POPULATION GENETIC MODELS
    Current position; Research scientist, NOAA, Santa Cruz.
  • Mariza de Andrade: Biostatistics, 1990. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    ESTIMATION OF THE GENOTYPIC PARAMETERS UNDER NON- NORMAL MODELS.
    Current position; Department of Health Sciences Research, Section of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic.
  • * Saonli Basu Statistics, 2005. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    ALLELE-SHARING METHODS FOR LINKAGE DETECTION USING EXTENDED PEDIGREES.
    Current position; Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Heike Bickeboller: Statistics, 1993. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson .
    THE POISSON CLUMPING HEURISTIC AND THE SURVIVAL OF GENOME IN SMALL PEDIGREES
    Current position; Professor, University of Goettingen, Germany.
  • Sharon Browning: Statistics, 1999. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    MONTE CARLO LIKELIHOOD CALCULATION FOR IDENTITY BY DESCENT DATA.
    Current position; Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland.
  • Nicky Chapman: Biostatistics, 2001. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    GENOME DESCENT IN ISOLATED POPULATIONS
    Current position; Wijsman Group, Division of Medical Genetics University of Washington.
  • Gary Churchill: Biostatistics, 1988. Advisor: Elizabeth Thompson.
    STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR DNA SEQUENCE DATA.
    Currently at The Jackson Laboratory.
  • Lindsey Dubb: Genome Sciences, 2005. Advisor: Joe Felsenstein.
    A LIKELIHOOD MODEL OF GENE FAMILY EVOLUTION.
  • Charles Geyer: Statistics, 1990. Advisor: Elizabeth Thompson.
    LIKELIHOOD AND EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES.
    Current position: School of Statistics,University of Minnesota.
  • Katrina Goddard: Biostatistics, 1999. Advisor; Ellen Wijsman.
    STUDY DESIGN ISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX GENETIC TRAITS.
    Current position Kaiser Permanente, Portland Oregon, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University.
  • * Garrett Hellenthal : Statistics, 2006. Advisor; Matthew Stephens.
    EXPLORING RATES AND PATTERNS OF VARIABILITY IN GENE CONVERSION AND CROSSOVER IN THE HUMAN GENOME.
    Current position; Postdoctoral researcher, Mathematical Genetics and Bioinformatics, University of Oxford, UK.
  • Jinko Graham: Biostatistics, 1998. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    DISEQUILIBRIUM FINE-MAPPING OF A RARE ALLELE VIA COALESCENT MODELS OF GENE ANCESTRY.
    Current position; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University.
  • Dick Guang-Iong Hwang: Genome Sciences, 2005. Advisor; Phil Green.
    BAYESIAN MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION.
    Current position; Completing MD training, UW School of Medicine.
  • Anne-Louise Leutenegger: Biostatistics, 2003. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson and Francoise Clerget-Darpoux.
    ESTIMATION OF RANDOM GENOME SHARING: CONSEQUENCES FOR LINKAGE DETECTION.
    Current position; INSERM, Paris, France.
  • Sun Wei Guo: Biostatistics, 1991. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    MONTE CARLO METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE GENETICS.
    Current position; Department of Pediatrics and Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin.
  • Jeff Leek : Biostatistics, 2007. Adviser; John Storey.
    SURROGATE VARIABLE ANALYSIS.
  • Hongzhe Li: Statistics, 1995. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF MAJOR GENE AND RANDOM ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS FOR AGE OF ONSET.
    Current position; School of Medicine and Division of Statistics, University of Califonia, Davis.
  • * Na Li: Biostatistics, 2003. Advisors; Matthew Stephens and Elizabeth Thompson.
    MODELING AND INFERENCE FOR LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM AND RECOMBINATION
    Current position; Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
  • Shili Lin: Statistics, 1993. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ESTIMATES OF PROBABILITIES ON COMPLEX STRUCTURES.
    Current position; Department of Statistics, Ohio State University.
  • Susan McGorray: Biostatistics, 1990. Advisor; Barbara McKnight.
    EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENETIC COMPONENTS OF DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY BASED ON DATA OBTAINED FROM SIBLING PAIRS.
    Current position; Department of Statistics, Division of Biostatistics, University of Florida.
  • * Arindam RoyChoudhury: Statistics, 2006. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson
    LIKELIHOOD INFERENCE FOR POPULATION STRUCTURE USING THE COALESCENT.
    Current position; Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
  • Josh Sampson : Biostatistics, 2007. Adviser; Steve Self
    CLUSTERING GENES IN GENETICAL GENOMICS.
    Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University.
  • * Paul Scheet: Statistics, 2006. Advisor; Matthew Stephens
    AN EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE MODEL FOR PATTERNS OF POPULATION GENETIC VARIATION.
    Current position; Postdoctoral researcher. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
  • Nuala Sheehan: Statistics, 1990. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    GENETIC RESTORATION ON COMPLEX PEDIGREES.
    Current position; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester.
  • * Solveig Sieberts: Statistics, 2003. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    JOINT RELATIONSHIP INFERENCE FROM THREE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS IN THE PRESENCE OF GENOTYPING ERROR
    Current position; Research scientist, Rosetta Inpharmatics (Merck), Seattle, WA
  • Kimberly Siegmund: Biostatistics, 1995. Advisor; Barbara McKnight.
    GENETIC MODELS FOR HAZARDS IN FAMILIES.
    Current position; Department of Preventative Medicine, Divisions of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Southern California.
  • * William Stewart: Statistics, 2005. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson.
    ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR ESTIMATING GENETIC MAPS FROM PEDIGREE DATA
    Current position;
    Postdoctoral researcher. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
  • Jeffrey Thorne: Genetics, 1991. Advisor; Joe Felsenstein.
    PAIRWISE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS: EVOLUTIONARY PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND ALIGNMENT.
    Current position; Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University.
  • Camlin Tierney: Biostatistics, 1992. Advisor; Barbara McKnight.
    POWER OF AFFECTED SIBLING METHOD TESTS FOR LINKAGE.
    Current position; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health.
  • Xuesong Yu: Biostatistics, 2007. Adviser Li Hsu
    STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ANALYZING GENOMIC DATA WITH CONSIDERATION OF SPATIAL STRUCTURES.

 

 

 

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