Research
computational genomics
As a result of new technologies, genetics research has become a data-rich discipline with enormous complex datasets. Our teams are developing algorithms, data formats, and software to interrogate these datasets and integrate genome, phenotype, and health record data to understand the relationship between genotype and phenotype and predict disease risk.

Lynn B. Jorde
Professor and Chair
Disease-gene identification; Population genetics
lbj@genetics.utah.edu
Ellen Leffler
Assistant Professor
Human and non-human primate evolutionary genomics; Infectious disease.
leffler@genetics.utah.edu
Gabor Marth
Professor; Co-Director, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair
DNA sequence variations; Computational algorithms; Comprehensive web tool system
gmarth@genetics.utah.edu
Aaron Quinlan
Professor; Associate Director, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery
Human genome interpretation; Application of genomics to clinical care; Chromosome stability and somatic genome evolution; Algorithm and genomics software development; Cancer genetics; Nucleotide repeat disorders; Population genomics; Genetics of complex cisease
aquinlan@genetics.utah.edu
Mark Yandell
Professor; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair; Director, Eccles Institute Bioinformatics program; Technical Director, Utah Genome Project; Co-Director, USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery
Computational biology; Human population genetics; Image processing; Computer-assisted bioinformatics; Comparative genomics
myandell@genetics.utah.edu
Xiaoxu Yang
Assistant Professor
Mosaicism, Bioinformatics, Human Genetics
xiaoxu.yang@genetics.utah.edu