Genome-wide studies depend heavily on the quality and consistency of integrated annotation data from diverse computational and experimental sources. This thesis presents [...]

Historically, most advances in gene mapping have occurred through the use of linkage analysis in family studies of Mendelian diseases. Translating these successes into fi [...]

According to the American Diabetes Association, approximately 30 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes as of 2012, representing over ten percent of the populatio [...]

Single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping provides a method of genotyping ideally suited to high throughput operations. However, individual variation at SNP loci presents [...]