Genetic Associations in the MHC

When:
May 1, 2015 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
2015-05-01T12:00:00+01:00
2015-05-01T13:15:00+01:00
Where:
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Old Road Campus
Roosevelt Drive
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:

Across the human genome, the major histocompatibility complex region on chromosome 6 harbors the largest number of genotype-phenotype associations identified to date. I will give an overview of some of the advances that have helped in the characterization of inherited DNA sequence variation across the region as well as the fine-mapping of MHC associations for a wide range of diseases.