Jonathan Lam

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First Name
Jonathan
Last Name
Lam
Student Status
Graduate Student
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics
BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2020-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Duplicated genes and association with disease

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Project Description

Hundreds of duplicated genes in the human genome are duplicated and many are known to be associated with a number of human diseases. However, the short read lengths of current sequencing technologies make the analysis of such genes difficult. We have developed novel tools to genotype the copy number of duplicated genes using whole-genome sequencing. The goal of this project is to analyze large-scale sequencing datasets (using cloud computing platforms) for Mendelian and complex human diseases to identify novel disease associations.