Dr Jennifer Asimit

MRC Methodology Research Fellow - Statistical Geneticist

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

My research interests lie in statistical methodology development for the analysis of genetic data, including next-generation sequencing. Currently, I am focused on methods for the overlap analysis of a collection of traits, though other interests include rare variant analyses and trans-ethnic fine-mapping. I am also interested in developing analysis approaches that incorporate prior biological knowledge, such as functional annotation and biological pathways.

I have developed methods and software for rare variant association analyses, ARIEL and AMELIA, as well as for the overlap analysis of traits, BOAT.

My timeline

• MRC Methodology Research Fellow, Metabolic Disease group (Dr. Inês Barroso), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Analytical Genomics of Complex Traits group (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada in the team of Dr. Shelley Bull

• PhD in Statistics (Analysis of Point Processes with Applications to Reaction Time Experiments), Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

• Canadian Journal of Statistics Award for 2005 for the paper: JL Asimit and WJ Braun (2005) “Third order point process intensity estimation for reaction time experiment data”, The Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 33, No 2, pp. 243-257.

• MSc in Statistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

• BSc in Mathematics and Statistics (double major), University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada