Sean Alexander Bankier

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

Affiliation

Research

The focus of my research is to understand how individual genetic variation is related to the prevalence of complex traits and disease within populations. Using multi-omic datasets and causal inference methods, I am particularly interested in the role of the plasma proteome in mediating gene expression signalling between tissues and how this relates to mechanisms of disease.

At UiB, I work on the NFR funded project; Intelligent systems for personalized and precise risk prediction and diagnosis of non-communicable diseases (INTRePID). In this project we aim to create computer methods for risk prediction and diagnosis of non-communicable diseases using multi-omics data, by developing, implementing and validating novel algorithms for structure learning and inference in large-scale, multi-organ causal Bayesian gene networks with applications in cardiovascular medicine. 

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