Genetic and Bioinformatic Analysis of Complex Human Diseases

有些人类疾病在家族中很常见；例子包括前列腺癌、血癌、癫痫和糖尿病。因此，患有这种疾病的人的近亲患这种疾病的风险增加，这意味着有遗传基础。找到这些疾病的原因是困难的，我们将开发新的方法来识别负责这些疾病的基因。这是为受影响个体开发治疗方法的第一步。

Some human diseases are common in families; examples include prostate cancer, blood cancers, epilepsy and diabetes. Therefore, close relatives of individuals with a disease have an increased risk of being affected by this disease, implying a genetic basis. Finding the cause of these diseases is difficult, we will be developing novel approaches to the identification of genes responsible for these diseases. This is the first step towards the development of treatments for affected individuals.