Welcome

Joelle Mbatchou, PhD

I am a statistical geneticist who is passionate about leveraging large scale genetic datasets to help improve our understanding of the relationship between genetics and human disease.

Portrait of Joelle Mbatchou

Focus areas

Methods and tools for large-scale genetic association

Methods

Whole-genome regression

Efficient association analyses for biobank-scale cohorts and many phenotypes.

Structure

Structured samples

Models and tests that account for population structure and relatedness.

Software

Scalable tooling

Computational methods and pipelines used in large human genetics studies.

Currently a statistical geneticist at the Regeneron Genetics Center. PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago (advisor: Prof. Mary Sara McPeek).