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Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius


  • Prof Ananyo Choudhury - Participant

    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. He has led/ co-led several major population genetics initiatives ( such as the Southern African Human Genome Program, H3Africa Whole Genome Sequence Study, the ongoing Assessing Genomic Diversity in Africa (AGenDA) study) as well as genome-wide association studies (such as studies on the AWI-Gen cohort) in sub-Saharan African populations. He co-chairs the Genome Analysis working group of the H3Africa consortium. He obtained his basic training in Zoology from the University of Kalyani and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Calcutta, India. His key interest is understanding African diversity and ancestries, and how these impact complex traits.