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William Valdar

William Valdar MSc, PhD

Bioinformatics
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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William Valdar, MSc, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the University College London and Master of Science at Manchester University. He runs a statistical genetics laboratory interested in the relationship between genes and complex diseases. He has a particular focus on the use of genetically diverse experimental model organism populations, but also, where suitable intersections arise, develop and apply methods and refine genetic inference in human populations.
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