The Graduate Certificate in Statistical Genetics provides opportunities for concentrated education in statistical genetics to graduate students from a variety of disciplines. While primarily focused towards matriculated PhD and MS students at UW, non-matriculated students may also apply. The classes are taught by faculty in Statistics, Biostatistics, and Genome Sciences.
Degree(s)/Certificate(s) offered
- Graduate Certificate in Statistical Genetics
Program director/interdisciplinary group chair
- Timothy Thornton, Associate Professor, Department of Biotatistics
Primary Staff Contact
- Mee-Ling Hon, Academic Counselor, Department of Statistics
Interdisciplinary Faculty Group Membership
The following are the core/voting Graduate Faculty members of the interdisciplinary group. For a complete list of faculty active in the program, see the program website.
- Brian Browning, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
- Sharon Browning, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Daniel Eisenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Joeseph Felsenstein, Professor, Departments of Biology, Genome Sciences, and Molecular Biotechnology
- Philip Green, Professor, Departments of Genome Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology
- Gail Jarvik, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Genome Sciences, and Molecular Biotechnology
- Benjamin Kerr, Professor, Department of Biology
- Kathleen Kerr, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Mary Kuhner, Research Associate Professor, Departments of Genome Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology
- Adam Leaché, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Harmit Malik, Affiliate Associate Professor, Departments of Genome Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology
- Frederick Matsen, Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
- Barbara McKnight, Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Debbie Nickerson, Professor, Departments of Genome Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology
- Daniel Promislow, Professor, Departments of Biology and Pathology
- Kenneth Rice, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Ali Shojaie, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Noah Simon, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Elizabeth Thompson, Professor, Department of Statistics
- Timothy Thornton, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Jon Wakefield, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics
- Bruce Weir, Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Ellen Wijsman, Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and Medicine
- Daniela Witten, Associate Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics