We develop statistical methods to characterize the genetic architecture of common disease. We are a part of the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics, and we are affiliated with the Broad Institute Program in Medical and Population Genetics.
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News
Oct 2026
- Qiuqi (Autumn) Xu has joined the lab as a master's student. Welcome, Autumn!
Aug 2026
- Ajay Nadig's manuscript, Estimating the contribution of coding mutations to autism, was posted on medRxiv. Congratulations, Ajay!
- Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani's paper, Defining and cataloging variants in pangenome graphs, was published in Cell Genomics. Congratulations, Pouria!
Jul 2026
- Jay Baik has joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Jay!
- Hui Li's paper, Improved heritability partitioning and enrichment analyses using summary statistics with graphREML, was published in Nature Genetics. Congratulations, Hui!
- Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani received an NOA for his K99/R00 application titled “Unraveling Complex Disease Genetics Using Graphs and Graph Algorithms.” Congratulations, Pouria!