DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Cancer Genetics
Prostate Cancer

Research Abstract

Dr. Altshuler’s research focused on two main goals: to characterize and catalogue human genome sequence variation, and to apply these insights, data and methods to illuminate the inherited basis of common, polygenic diseases. Dr. Altshuler is currently principal investigator on grants or subcontracts contributing to the Haplotype Map of the human genome (NHGRI, NIH), the Cohort Consortium for Prostate and Breast Cancer (NCI), the Multiethnic Cohort (NCI), the Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project (NIDDK, NIH), and six other funded projects. In 2002 Dr. Altshuler was named a Clinical Scholar in Translational Research of the Burroughs Welcome Fund, a Charles E. Culpeper Scholar of the Rockefeller Brother’s Fund, and the Krane Award of the MGH. Dr. Altshuler is an advisor to the National Institutes of Health, Merck Research Laboratories, The Wellcome Trust, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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