Gil McVean

Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean (born February 1973)^[5] is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford,^[6] fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and co-founder and director of Genomics plc.^[5][7] He also co-chaired the 1000 Genomes Project analysis group.^[8][9]

From 1991 to 1994, he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford.^[10] He completed his PhD in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge supervised by Laurence Hurst^[11][12] in 1998.^[3][13]

McVean completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000, supervised by Brian and Deborah Charlesworth.^[14][13]

From 2000 to 2004, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, where he has also been a University lecturer in Mathematical Genetics since 2004. He was reappointed in 2009 until retirement age.^[15] In October 2006, he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford.^[16]

McVean's research^[17] focuses on population genetics, statistics^[18] and evolutionary biology including the International HapMap Project,^[19][20] recombination rates in the human genome^[21] and the 1000 Genomes Project.^[22][23]

マクヴィーンは、組換え率を調べる統計的手法を開発し、PRDM9 をホットスポット位置決定遺伝子として特定するのに役立った。^{[ 24 ]} 2014 年、マクヴィーンはピーター・ドネリーと共に、オックスフォード大学のスピンオフ企業としてゲノム解析会社 Genomics plc を共同設立した。 ^{[ 5 ]} 2017 年、彼はオックスフォード大学のビッグデータ研究所の創設ディレクターを務めた。 ^{[ 25 ]}