Carole Ober
Professor

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Jayant Pinto
Assistant Professor of Surgery

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Dagan Loisel

Genome-wide studies of the genetic architecture of complex traits, with a focus on sex-specific genetic effects and gene expression patterns in asthma in the Hutterites and in the Childhood Origins of ASThma (COAST) Study.

Caroline Motika

Genetic studies of asthma and lung function phenotypes in the Hutterites.

A. Afsin Oktay

Mendelian trait mapping and sex-specific genetic architecture of cardiovascular disease traits and metabolic syndrome in the Hutterites.

Shilpy Sharma

Postdoc with Dr. Jayant Pinto studying the molecular basis of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and the immunological mechanisms that lead to its development with special emphasis on Treg cells.

Emma Thompson

Genetic basis of airway disease and olfactory phenotypes in the Hutterites; signatures of selection in genes involved in immune phenotypes.

Dara Torgerson

Discovery of novel disease-associated genes through population and evolutionary genetics approaches: including the identification of rare variants that contribute to complex diseases and the identification of biological and evolutionary patterns of disease-associated genes, in collaboration with Dan Nicolae.

Minal Caliskan
Department of Human Genetics

Integrative genomic studies of asthma and associated phenotypes; characterizing the effects of EBV-transformation on gene expression and methylation profiles in B cells.

Jessica Chong
Department of Human Genetics

Homozygosity mapping of Mendelian and complex diseases in the Hutterites

Gulum Kosova
Committee on Genetics

Genetic studies of human fertility and of X chromosome contributions to common diseases

Britta Crowley

Katherine Naughton

Rebecca Ouwenga

Carrier testing for recessive diseases in the Hutterites, in collaboration with Dr. Soma Das.

Talia Retter

Rebecca Anderson
Genetic Counselor

Coordination of patient recruitment for asthma genetic studies, and coordination of Hutterite field trips and phenotype data bases; CF carrier screening in the Hutterites

Christine Billstrand
Senior Research Staff

HLA-G polymorphisms and adverse pregnancy outcomes; tissue culture and cell transformations

Kristina Davis
Research Coordinator

Coordinator and data manager of Hutterite complex phenotype studies

Gaixin Du
Biostatistician

Development of statistical methods for mapping disease genes in the Hutterites, in collaboration with Mark Abney

Donna Lee Fackenthal
Lab Manager

Laboratory management and genotyping assay development

Josef Jurek
Senior Applications Programmer

Genetic data management, computational methods for genetic analysis.
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Yei-Won Lee
Research Assistant

Sample collection and recruitment for the Chicago Lying-In Pregnancy Program (CLIPP), an Obstetrics/Pediatrics/Genetics biobanking initiative

Kathleen Murray
Research Coordinator

Coordinator of the Chicago Lying-In Pregnancy Program (CLIPP), an Obstetrics/Pediatrics/Genetics biobanking initiative

Raluca Nicolae, DDS
Research Professional Associate (Senior Research Staff)

Technology development and management of sample collections

Kristen Patterson
Technician

Kevin Ross
Technician

Ying Sun
Bioinformaticist/Programmer

Analyses and management of genome-wide SNP data in the Hutterites for genome-wide association and follow-up studies

Ruth Waldner
Field Assistant