Database Studies
The Genetic Epidemiology program utilizes database resources to find patterns in genetic predispositions to various illnesses and diseases. Faculty in the Genetic Epidemiology program are working on the creation and analysis of a Genealogy/Medical Phenotype Resource in partnership with the Department of Veteran's Affairs databases. Additional database research is focused on discovering various aspects of human illness and injury, including:
Familiality Analysis
(Data from the University of Utah Health Sciences Center)
- Rotator cuff injuries and recovery
- Gallstone disease
- Spline disorders
- Influenza
- Predisposition to sepsis
- Varicella zoster virus infection (shingles)
- Stroke
- Outcomes after traumatic injury
- Surgical site infection
- Thinness
Additional Database Studies are active for the following conditions:
- Chronic pain and treatment response
- Heritable breast cancer
- Apoptosis gene variants in familial breast cancer
- Genetic epidemiology of breast cancer
- Inherited predisposition to diabetes
- Familiality of pituitary tumors
- Cancer trends related to down's syndrome
- Neurogenetics of auditory processing disorder
- Familial nature of predisposition to asthma
- Familial nature of predisposition to endometrial cancer
- Familial nature of predisposition to pancreas cancer
- Heritability of medication response
- Familiality of brain tumors and co-aggregation with other cancers
- Familiality of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
- Genetic predisposition to sarcomas
- Association of cancer and systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDS)
- Genetics of food allergies.