Felix E. Moore, Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, is a leader in genetic analysis
of complex human traits.
Computational geneticists have been focused mostly on SNPs that look like a single letter typo — mother vs. muther — and their effect
on complex human traits.
There is a fundamental gap in studying its function
in complex human traits because genome - wide association studies (GWAS) disregarded or incorrectly analyzed X-linked data due to methodological limitations.
It suggests that all of those noncoding genetic associations are not random, but indicative of the intricate regulatory genetic networks
underlying complex human traits.
«The findings presented today are evidence of how our approach of bringing together vast amounts of genetic and health information can shed light on the processes
driving complex human traits.
«Alcohol dependence is
a complex human trait.