Dr. Richard Howey, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University

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I am a Research Associate working with Prof. Heather Cordell, focusing on the development of statistical genetic software for the research community available on the GNU General Public License.

Research Interests

Recent work includes the estimation of parental and child genetic effects based on genotype data from different pedigree structures. The use of genotype data from the parents as well as from the subject in question allows the estimation of complex genetic effects such as maternal genotype effects, maternal-foetal interactions or parent-of-origin (imprinting) effects. Software (EMIM/PREMIM) is now available.

My interests are mainly concerned with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and related problems, particularly the statistical and computational development of new methods to address certain data structures. This includes the analysis of multiple genetic loci that are in linkage disequilibrium and gene-gene interactions.

My work also includes writing useful software programs to help perform various genetic analyses, such as the MapThin software which helps with linkage analysis by thinning map files.

Richard Howey

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