Solar Eclipse Imaging Genetics tools

The goal of this project is to merge two important research directions in modern science, genetics and neuroimaging. This entails combining modern statistical genetic methods and quantitative phenotyping performed with high dimensional neuroimaging modalities. So far, however, standard imaging tools are unable to deal with large-scale genetics data, and standard genetics tools, in turn, are unable to accommodate large size and binary format of the image data. Thus we are developing software tools optimized for performing univariate and multivariate imaging genetics analyses while providing practical correction strategies for multiple testing.

Our focus is to create imaging genetics tools for classical genetic and epigenetic epidemiological analyses such as heritability, pleiotropy, quantitative trait loci (QTL) and genome-wide association (GWAS), gene expression, and methylation analyses optimized for traits derived from structural and functional brain imaging data