Jonathan Pritchard, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University, presents "How selection, pleiotropy and chance shape what we discover in genome-wide association studies".

Jonathan Pritchard is a Professor of Biology and Genetics at Stanford University.  He grew up mainly in England, and studied at Penn State, Stanford, and Oxford before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2001. He returned to Stanford to take his current position in 2013. His lab has done wide-ranging research on using genetics to study human population structure, history, and adaptation, as well as on understanding the mechanisms that link genetic variation to variation in gene regulation and complex traits. One of his key early contributions was the Structure algorithm for using genetic data to infer population structure and personal ancestry. His current work focuses on the genetic basis of complex traits in humans and on genetic approaches to studying human population history and adaptation.

Host: Huaijun Zhou (hzhou@ucdavis.edu)