Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Biological Sciences Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Statistical and Quantitative Genetics Statistical and quantitative genetics form the ...

The Department of Biostatistics research areas include both applied and theoretical statistical methods, statistical genetics, and clinical trials. Faculty, staff, and students participate in a broad ...

A collaboration including Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital’s Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) has produced a breakthrough in how to ...

Over the past decades, large-scale human genetic studies have identified numerous risk genes and variants associated with complex diseases and traits.

Scientists look to a host of tools to help them discover genetic mutations linked to diseases. But which are the most reliable, efficient, and cost-effective? Which tools have the greatest promise for ...

The next ISG workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 6th-10th 2023. The course is planned to include sessions on: causes of variation; biometrical genetics; UNIX/R scripting; whole-genome ...

Ahead of the 2024 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, ASHG congratulated and welcomed the 2024–2026 Human Genetics Scholars this August. The scholars include a group of trainees ...

Optimization of occupancy-based monitoring has focused on balancing the number of sites and surveys to minimize field efforts and costs. When survey techniques require post-field processing of samples ...

Statistical and quantitative genetics form the backbone of modern biological research by providing the mathematical framework to dissect complex traits. By integrating sophisticated statistical models ...

Chad Shaw, a statistician with joint appointments at Rice and Baylor and a faculty member at the NRI. Shaw is also the director of Rice’s Data to Knowledge Lab. A collaboration between Rice University ...