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Nature Genetics published the paper titled “Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression” on 26 April 2018.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published thirteen papers during April 8-21, 2018.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published seventeen papers during March 25-April 7, 2018.

Dr. William Valdar, was accepted to the UNC Graduate School’s Frank Porter Graham Honor Society in recognition of outstanding contribution to graduate education at UNC.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published ten papers during March 11-24, 2018.

Dr. Will Valdar has received an R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for his project titled “Statistical Modeling of Multiparental and Genetic Reference Populations”.

More than fifty faculty members from the Department of Genetics participated in the first annual Winter Faculty Retreat on Wed., March 7.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eleven papers during Feb. 25 – March 10, 2018.

Dr. Schrider’s research interests lie in the area of developing machine learning methods for leveraging population genetic data to make inferences about natural selection and demographic events such as migration and population size change.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published fourteen papers during Feb. 11-24, 2018. The Integrated Genomic Landscape of Thymic Epithelial Tumors. Radovich M, Pickering CR, Felau I, Ha G, Zhang H, Jo H, Hoadley KA, Anur P, Zhang J, McLellan M, Bowlby R, Matthew T, Danilova L, Hegde AM, Kim...