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Fall 2013
High-dimensional biological data have been increasingly made available for tackling complex health problems. As with any Big Data opportunities, this has led to methodological challenges for extracting relevant information from such data, particularly in settings where biologically-sensible and...
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Spring 2015
Advance in biotechnologies has enabled genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that scan the entire human genome for understanding genetic contributions to the risk of a certain disease as well as to variation in treatment efficacy and side effects. In GWAS, the association between each...
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Fall 2013
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the developed world. The disease results from the combined effects of genetic, environmental, reproductive and lifestyle risk factors. Germline DNA variations identified thus far by linkage and genome-wide association studies (GWASs) account...
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Fall 2016
Patterns of microbial host specificity have been observed at all host-related taxonomic levels, and several studies have demonstrated that Escherichia coli (E. coli) appears to display some level of host adaptation and specificity. Colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by E. coli largely...