Augustine Kong
Chung Tung Augustine Kong is a statistical geneticist who is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine, where he is also the Senior Group Leader in Genomic Epidemiology.[1] He was previously the head of the statistics team at the Icelandic company deCODE genetics, and before that, he taught at the University of Chicago.[2] He has conducted research on the genetic basis of educational attainment and the way in which it can be influenced by "genetic nurture", or the genes carried by parents but not passed on to their children.[3][4]
Augustine Kong | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chung Tung Augustine Kong |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical genetics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago deCODE genetics University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Multivariate belief functions and graphical models (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Pentland Dempster |
| Doctoral students | Jun S. Liu |
References
- "Augustine Kong". Oxford Big Data Institute. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- "Augustine Kong, PhD". New York Genome Center. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- Zimmer, Carl (2018-01-25). "You Are Shaped by the Genes You Inherit. And Maybe by Those You Don't". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- Chen, Angela (2018-01-25). "Here's how you're influenced by the genes you didn't inherit from your parents". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
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