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Steve Horvath

Steve Horvath PhD

Genetics
Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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Steve Horvath is a bioinformatician whose research area lies at the intersection of biostatistics,computational biology, cancer research, genetics, epidemiology, machine learning, and systems biology. His group applies data mining methods to study a broad spectrum of diseases, e.g. aging research, cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV, Huntington's disease, neurodegenerative diseases. He became a full professor in Human Genetics and Biostatistics in 2009. He develops and applies methods for analyzing and integrating gene expression-, DNA methylation-, microRNA, genetic marker-, and complex phenotype data. In particular, his group developed weighted correlation network analysis (also known as weighted gene co-expression network analysis WGCNA), which is a systems biologic data analysis method for analyzing high dimensional "-omics" data. He works on all aspects of biomarker development.
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