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  <id type="integer">119287</id>
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  <source>Naturejobs.com - Ecommerce</source>
  <company-url>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/</company-url>
  <employer-url>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/</employer-url>
  <application-email></application-email>
  <application-url>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/</application-url>
  <employer-name>Harvard School of Public Health</employer-name>
  <company-name>Harvard School of Public Health</company-name>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[*DESCRIPTION:*
Dr. Alkes Price, a faculty member in the departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, is seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on statistical genetics methods and their application to large real-world data sets in human medical genetics. The fellow will work closely with Dr. Price, with other quantitative Ph.D's in his group, and with collaborators at HSPH, HMS and The Broad Institute. Questions that we aim to answer include: (1) Which scoring statistics for genome-wide association studies in populations of mixed ancestry provide maximum power to identify disease genes, accounting for admixture association, imputation and replication strategy, (2) What can we learn about the "missing heritability" in eQTL studies of gene expression regulation by leveraging statistical information from thousands of independent phenotypes, and (3) Which new statistical approaches will maximize the informativeness of resequencing data for identifying disease genes in homogeneous, structured and/or admixed populations.

*QUALIFICATIONS:*
Ph.D in a quantitative field, exceedingly strong quantitative research background, experience working with large real-world data sets, statistical and programming proficiency, and an interest in working in genetics (no biology background needed).

*ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:*
Please submit a cover letter (including a brief statement of interest), CV, contact information for at least 3 references, and one sample publication by email to Dr. Alkes Price ( http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/ ).

Applications from minority and female candidates are especially encouraged. Harvard University is an AA/EOE. ]]>
  </description>
  <location>Boston MA</location>
  <title>Postdoctoral Research Position in Statistical Genetics</title>
  <created-on type="datetime">Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:40:45 -0500</created-on>
  <expires-on type="datetime">Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</expires-on>
  <url>http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/119287-Postdoctoral-Research-Position-in-Statistical-Genetics</url>
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