This Thursday, October 13 at 10 AM, we will be having a WHR-WIP meeting! Dr. Jacklyn Hellwege, a research professor of genetic medicine, will present Uterine Fibroids GWAS updates.
Jacklyn N. Hellwege, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Genetic Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Hellwege’s projects focus on genetic association analyses of exome- and genome-wide array data, as well as large-scale sequencing data, for a wide variety of phenotypes, particularly those derived from electronic health records. Phenotypes of particular interest include uterine fibroids, keloid scars, and other fibroproliferative traits, in addition to several collaborative association studies encompassing the broad spectrum of cardiometabolic phenotypes.
Dr. Hellwege’s previous work was focused on the integration of two-point linkage analysis with contemporary large-scale genotype information and association analysis to identify high-impact functional variants. Additional methods she has employed include gene-based association for low-frequency variants, meta-analysis, interaction analysis (epistasis), and construction of polygenic genetic risk scores. She is particularly interested in genetic research of diseases that disproportionally impact minority health.
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