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Jessica Li wins one of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Awards
UCLA Computational Medicine and Statistics professor Jingyi Jessica Li won one of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Awards. The award recognizes the talents, leadership potential, and achievements of high-potential early career statistical scientists.
Impact of cross-ancestry genetic architecture on GWAS in admixed populations | AJHG
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are an important tool for disease mapping but are under-explored for populations of individuals with mixed genetic ancestries (admixed). This work provides guidance on method selection and shows that differences in allele frequency and/or causal effects by ancestries impact statistical power for GWAS in admixed populations.
UCLA-Led Team Finds Lingering Effects of Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of modern non-Africans, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits — until now.
Biomath PhD graduate receives the Publisher's Award from The Society of Systematic Biologists
Recent Biomathematics Ph.D. graduate Alexander Fisher (now an Assistant Professor at Duke) has received the Publisher's Award for Excellence in Systematic Research from The Society of Systematic Biologists. The award is presented to the two best papers based on student research published in Systematic Biology during the previous year.
The award is for the research article:
Alexander A Fisher, University of California, Los Angeles