The SPH Department of Biostatistics and the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) at Johns Hopkins have joined forces to provide critical support for the interpretation of genetic data.

Hopkins' CIDR is one of the premier genotyping and sequencing centers in the US, providing high quality statistical services to researchers who are identifying genes that contribute to common diseases. Our Department of Biostatistics plays a pivotal role in biomedical research throughout the Pacific Northwest, from initial design to final reports, and will provide statistical support for the investigators who have data generated at CIDR.

The exciting new UW/Hopkins collaboration reflects the Department's success over the past four years as the Coordinating Center for the GENEVA consortium, a collection of whole-genome association studies. Department activities have so far led to 50 GENEVA publications about the genetic basis of several major human diseases: alcohol dependence, autism, bladder cancer, cleft lip and cleft palate, conduct disorder, dental caries, glaucoma, kidney disease, lung cancer, pre-term birth, prostate cancer, type II diabetes, and more.