Gilean McVean
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Gil McVean at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
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| Born | Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean February 1973 (age 43) |
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| Thesis | Adaptation and conflict : the differences between the sexes in mammalian genome evolution (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Laurence Hurst |
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Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean (born 1973)FRSFMedSci is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford, director of the Big Data Institute, fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and co-founder and director at Genomics plc He also co-chaired the 1000 Genomes Project analysis group.
From McVean completed his PhD in the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge supervised by Laurence Hurst in 1998.
Following his PhD, McVean completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000 supervised by Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth. From 2000-2004 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow, in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, where he has also been a University lecturer in Mathematical Genetics since 2004 (reappointed in 2009 until retirement age). In October 2006 he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on population genetics, statistics and evolutionary biology including the International HapMap Project, recombination rates in the human genome and the 1000 Genomes Project. He developed a statistical method to look at recombination rate which helped to identify PRDM9 as a hotspot positioning gene.
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