The Broad's Program in Medical and Population Genetics brings together a scientific community focused on understanding how genomic variation contributes to susceptibility to human disease and to an individual's response to therapy. Experts in population genetics, statistics, molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics collaborate to characterize common genetic variants and establish their role in disease.
Scientists in the Program in Medical and Population Genetics share ideas and launch collaborative projects to tackle key challenges. The program also works closely with scientists in the Genetic Analysis Platform. In addition, it collaborates with many other labs in the Harvard-MIT community and elsewhere.
Major areas of focus include:
Medical and Population Genetics scientists are at the heart of genetic analysis projects across Broad, collaborating in the design and interpretation of genetic and genomic research efforts by developing computational methods that enable scientists to recognize and understand gene variation patterns and their influence on disease and drug response.
