Karl Broman
Position title: Professor
Email: broman@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-4633
Address:
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Statistical problems in genetics and genomics, particularly methods for identifying genes contributing to variation in complex traits in experimental organisms.
- Address
- 6743 Medical Sciences Center
- Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (1997), Postdoctoral Research: Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin
- Lab Website
- https://kbroman.org
- Department
- Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
- Research Interests
- Statistical problems in genetics and genomics, particularly methods for identifying genes contributing to variation in complex traits in experimental organisms.
- Research Fields
- Computational, Systems & Synthetic Biology, Evolutionary & Population Genetics, Genomics & Proteomics, Human, mouse & rat
Research Description:
I am an applied statistician focusing on problems in genetics and genomics – particularly the analysis of meiotic recombination and the genetic dissection of complex traits in experimental organisms. I am an enthusiastic advocate for open science, open software, reproducible research, and interactive data visualization.
Representative Publications:
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Broman KW, Gatti DM, Svenson KL, Sen Ś, Churchill GA (2019) Cleaning genotype data from Diversity Outbred mice. G3 (Bethesda) 9:1571-1579 https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400165
Broman KW, Gatti DM, Simecek P, Furlotte NA, Prins P, Sen Ś, Yandell BS, Churchill GA (2019) R/qtl2: software for mapping quantitative trait loci with high-dimensional data and multi-parent populations. Genetics 211:495-502 https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301595
Broman KW, Woo KH (2018) Data organization in spreadsheets. Am Stat 72:2-10 https://doi.org/10/gdz6cm
Broman KW, Keller MP, Broman AT, Kendziorski C, Yandell BS, Sen Ś, Attie AD (2015) Identification and correction of sample mix-ups in expression genetic data: A case study. G3 (Bethesda) 5:2177-2186 https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.115.019778
Broman KW (2015) R/qtlcharts: interactive graphics for quantitative trait locus mapping. Genetics 199:359-361 https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.114.172742