The research has implications for understanding chronic, complex human diseases over time. (sciencenews.org)
Develop and de-risk new therapeutic avenues to treat serious, complex human disease by understanding the biological mechanisms. (broadinstitute.org)
Further, his group pioneered expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies, which enabled variation in global gene expression to be applied to genetics of complex human diseases. (genestogenomes.org)