Mary Sara McPeek

Professor
Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, and the College
Undergraduate Program Chair
Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology

Mary Sara McPeek
Office:
Jones 318
Phone:
773-702-7554
Fax:
773-702-9810
Email:
mcpeek@uchicago.edu
Website:
https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~mcpeek/

Research

My research interests are in statistical genetics and development of statistical
methods. Software for most of my projects is available on my website.
Specific current research interests include:

  • methods for genetic association analysis, including methods for binary,
    quantitative, longitudinal and X-linked traits
  • spectral analysis of population structure and other approaches to unknown
    population structure, particularly in the context of genetic association
    analysis
  • methods to detect association with copy number variation
  • methods for genetic analysis in isolated populations
  • relationship inference
  • quasi-likelihood methods, problems of incomplete data, and
    applications of random matrix theory in statistical genetics

Last update: 7/10/23