Naomi Wray
Australian statistical geneticist and researcher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Naomi Ruth Wray FAA FAHMS is an Australian statistical geneticist at the University of Queensland, where she is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and an Affiliate Professor in the Queensland Brain Institute. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow and, along with Peter Visscher and Jian Yang, is one of the three executive team members of the NHMRC-funded Program in Complex Trait Genomics.[2] Naomi pioneered the use of polygenic scores in human genetics, and has made significant contributions to both the development of methods and their clinical use.
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Naomi Wray | |
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Citizenship | Australian |
Education | University of Edinburgh (BSc, 1984; PhD, 1989) Cornell University (MS, 1986)[1] |
Known for | Research on genetic architecture of complex traits |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Quantitative genetics |
Institutions | University of Queensland |
Thesis | Consequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs (1989) |
Doctoral advisors | Bill Hill Robin Thompson |
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