Kristen Kelly

Research Interests:

My research interests span a range of topics relating to ___, including: 

1. Etiologic heterogeneity of disease (the idea that different underlying causal factors and biological mechanisms may produce similar symptoms and possibly be grouped together under the same diagnosis).
2. Assortative mating (individuals marrying other individuals who are more similar to them for certain traits such as height, which can cause unusual distribution of trait-related alleles in the population).
3. Exploring new applications of/modifications to existing genetic methods to ask different questions (such as applying methods for heritability analysis to the question of heterogeneity.)

Mentor:

Matthew Keller

Other Interests:

Cats and ukuleles!