Naomi Wray
Naomi Ruth Wray FAA FAHMS is an Australian statistical geneticist at the University of Queensland, where she is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and an Affiliate Professor in the Queensland Brain Institute. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow and, along with Peter Visscher and Jian Yang, is one of the three executive team members of the NHMRC-funded Program in Complex Trait Genomics.[2] Naomi pioneered the use of polygenic scores in human genetics, and has made significant contributions to both the development of methods and their clinical use.
Naomi Wray | |
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| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (BSc, 1984; PhD, 1989) Cornell University (MS, 1986)[1] |
| Known for | Research on genetic architecture of complex traits |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantitative genetics |
| Institutions | University of Queensland |
| Thesis | Consequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs (1989) |
| Doctoral advisors | Bill Hill Robin Thompson |
Education and career edit
Wray has a B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh (1984),[3] and an M.S. from Cornell University in 1986.[4] She earned her Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Edinburgh where she worked on population genetics.[5]
Selected publications edit
- "Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression". Nature Genetics. 50 (5): 668–681. 2018. doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0090-3. ISSN 1061-4036. PMC 5934326. PMID 29700475.
- Visscher, Peter M.; Wray, Naomi R.; Zhang, Qian; Sklar, Pamela; McCarthy, Mark I.; Brown, Matthew A.; Yang, Jian (6 July 2017). "10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation". The American Journal of Human Genetics. 101 (1): 5–22. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.06.005. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 5501872. PMID 28686856.
- Wray, Naomi R.; Yang, Jian; Hayes, Ben J.; Price, Alkes L.; Goddard, Michael E.; Visscher, Peter M. (2013). "Pitfalls of predicting complex traits from SNPs". Nature Reviews Genetics. 14 (7): 507–515. doi:10.1038/nrg3457. ISSN 1471-0056. PMC 4096801. PMID 23774735.
- Wray, Naomi R.; Goddard, Michael E.; Visscher, Peter M. (1 October 2007). "Prediction of individual genetic risk to disease from genome-wide association studies". Genome Research. 17 (10): 1520–1528. doi:10.1101/gr.6665407. ISSN 1088-9051. PMC 1987352. PMID 17785532.
Awards and honors edit
She was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016[6][7] and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.
References edit
- ^ "Naomi Wray". Program in Complex Trait Genomics. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ "Academy elects 28 new Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Wray, Naomi Ruth (1986). Analysis of gestation lengths in American Simmental cattle (Thesis). OCLC 63341482.
- ^ Wray, Naomi Ruth (1989). Consequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs. University of Edinburgh. OCLC 556698761.
- ^ "Professor Naomi Wray". Queensland Brain Institute. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Professor Naomi Ruth Wray". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
External links edit
- Faculty page
- Naomi Wray publications indexed by Google Scholar