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<h1>Research Areas</h1>

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			<h4>HLA ANALYSIS</h4>
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			We are developing methods to perform HLA typing in diverse populations, and characterize their associations with complex traits and disease.	
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			<h4>GENOME PRIVACY</h4>
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			We are studying best ways to protect the privacy of individuals while allowing authorized researchers to compute with sensitive data.
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			<h4>ANCESTRY-AWARE POLYGENIC RISK SCORES</h4>
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			We are developing models that consider each individual’s unique patchwork of ancestry to accurately predict disease risk.	
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			<h4>SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH</h4>
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			We are developing methods that incorporate factors like genetics, ancestry, socioeconomic factors, and environmental factors for health evaluation in diverse populations.
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			<h4>DISTRIBUTED ANALYTICS</h4>
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			We are developing algorithms that allows us to compute with data that are not located at a central database, but instead are distributed across different databases.
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			<h4>TANDEM REPEATS</h4>
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			CAST is leveraging methods to analyze highly polymorphic tandem repeats in diverse populations, and understand their role in medically relevant complex traits.
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