Karl Broman

Karl Broman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWM) in the Biostatistics and Medical Informatics departments.^[1] He has been employed at UWM since 2007 and previously was employed at Johns Hopkins University from 1999 - 2007.^[1] Broman's original research focus was quantitative genetics,^[2] although he has also become known for his work on reproducible research.^[3] In 2016, Broman was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Research

Study of Bile Acids

In 2019 Karl Broman and a group of researchers published a study which found genetic variants in mice that impacted the bile acid levels in their guts.^[4]

Broman's other highly cited papers include:

• Broman, Karl W., et al. "Comprehensive human genetic maps: individual and sex-specific variation in recombination." The American Journal of Human Genetics 63.3 (1998): 861–869.
• Broman, Karl W., et al. "R/qtl: QTL mapping in experimental crosses." Bioinformatics 19.7 (2003): 889–890.
• Churchill, Gary A., et al. "The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits." Nature genetics 36.11 (2004): 1133.

Rstudio

Karl Broman created R (programming language) packages such as qtlcharts, QTL, and QTL2. These packages perform trait localization and visualizations of genetic data in high dimensions.^[2]