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Adelaide Tovar (she/they)

Adelaide is an NHGRI MOSAIC K99/R00 postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan where she works with Drs. Stephen Parker and Jacob Kitzman. She completed her PhD training in statistical genetics and genomics to study gene-environment interactions. Currently, she leads a multi-institution effort to characterize all noncoding variants associated with type 2 diabetes across cell types and stimulation states using massively parallel reporter assays. ​​With the support of her K99/R00 award, she is building a research program to study broad aspects of complex disease including network circuitry disrupted along the continuum of monogenic and polygenic human diseases.

 

Teams

Variant Effect Seminar Series Committee

 

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