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6th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting

  • Ananyo Choudhury

    A/Prof Ananyo Choudhury - Speaker

    Integrated modeLs for Early Risk-prediction in Africa (ILERA) study (Contact-PI)

    Ananyo Choudhury is a Reader at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research focus is to develop a better understanding of the African genetic diversity, population history and how these impact complex traits. Over the last decade he has contributed to several major genomic initiatives, including the African Genome Variation Project, the H3Africa genotyping array design, the Southern African Human Genome Program, and the H3Africa Whole Genome Sequence Study. He currently leads the AGenDA and GAIN - two major pan-African genomic studies . He obtained his basic training in Zoology from the University of Kalyani and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Calcutta, India.