Carlos Bustamante
PROFESSOR
Biomedical
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
Carlos Bustamante is a professor of Genetics Operations and biology. He is a member of Bio-X, Cardiovascular Institute, Child Health Research Institute,Stanford Cancer Institute. He got Provost Award for Distinguished Research, Cornell University (2008).He is a Sloan Research Fellow in Molecular Biology, Sloan Foundation (2007-9), Marshall Sherfield Fellow, Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (2001-2)He did Ph.D. from Harvard University in Biology (2001),A.M.from Harvard University in Statistics (2001)and A.B. from Harvard College, Biology (1997).
Research Interest
analyzing genome wide patterns of variation within and between species to address fundamental questions in biology, anthropology, and medicine.
Publications
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Gravel S, Henn BM, Gutenkunst RN, Indap AR, Marth GT, Clark AG, Yu F, Gibbs RA, Bustamante CD, Altshuler DL, Durbin RM. Demographic history and rare allele sharing among human populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2011 Jul 19;108(29):11983-8.
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Kenny EE, Timpson NJ, Sikora M, Yee MC, Moreno-Estrada A, Eng C, Huntsman S, Burchard EG, Stoneking M, Bustamante CD, Myles S. Melanesian blond hair is caused by an amino acid change in TYRP1. Science. 2012 May 4;336(6081):554-.
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Kidd JM, Gravel S, Byrnes J, Moreno-Estrada A, Musharoff S, Bryc K, Degenhardt JD, Brisbin A, Sheth V, Chen R, McLaughlin SF. Population genetic inference from personal genome data: impact of ancestry and admixture on human genomic variation. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2012 Oct 5;91(4):660-71.
