Mark J. Daly, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he directs computational biology for the Medical and Population Genetics Program. His lab focuses on computational approaches to understanding the genetics of disease with a strategy of integrating powerful techniques from human and mouse genetics. The lab has extensive experience in linkage and association analysis and is now primarily focused on the creation of haplotype maps in humans and mice, the development of methods for design and interpretation of association studies using these maps, and the specific application of these approaches in major common disease areas such as diabetes, inflammatory/autoimmune and neuropsychiatric disease.
Mark holds a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Genetics from Leiden University. Previously, he was director of the Human Genetics Informatics group at the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research from 1996 on and from 2001-2004 ran an independent research group as the Pfizer Fellow in Computational Biology at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. His group develops and actively supports GENEHUNTER and MAPMAKER/QTL software, used by hundreds of labs worldwide, for performing linkage analyses in natural and experimental pedigrees and more recently has released Haploview, which has become a standard for LD analysis and is a a primary analysis and visualization tool used in the HapMap Project. In addition to many local research collaborations, he also serves as advisor and analyst to international genetic research consortia studying inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis.
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