Department Highlights

Genomic Privacy in GWASs?
How protected is your identity if you participate in genomics studies? Previous discussions of this question led to the withdrawal of allele frequencies from publicly available results. Now, Im et al. show that regression coefficients can, in some cases, provide just as much information as allele frequencies...
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Ahsan Lab Identifies Variants of Arsenic Metabolism and Toxicity
Lead Author: Brandon Pierce
Published in PLoS Genetics
UCM Press Release
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Ahsan Lab Study Identifies Opportunities for Future Personalized Colorectal Cancer Treatment
Lead Author: Farzana Jasmine
Published in PLoS ONE
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Reanalysis: Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment
Lead Author: Robert D. Gibbons
Published on www.archgenpsychiatry.com
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Message from the Chairman
The Department of Health Studies is the home within the Division of Biological Sciences for the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology and health services research. Our faculty, staff, and students draw on the disciplines of statistics, epidemiology, psychology, sociology, demography and economics in the study of health, health care and biomedical science from a population perspective.

Ronald A. Thisted, PhD, Chairman