Last updated 14 July 2022

Jurg Ott

jurg.ott at gmail.com ~~~ ott at rockefeller.edu

This is my personal webpage but it also reflects my scientific life as the two cannot be separated... face

"Non, je ne regrette rien" (Edith Piaf)

Research Interests

Developing new mathematical-statistical methods for human gene mapping (linkage mapping, disequilibrium analysis). Implementing these methods in computer programs.
To study interactions of multiple disease loci underlying complex traits, pattern recognition methods
Statistical analysis of genome-wide case-control association data and of microarray data
Collaborating with other researchers on the analysis of their genetic data

Casanova's Autobiography
Johns Hopkins University Press

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Information on short courses may be found on our website in New York.
For genetic analysis software click here.

Affiliations

Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and Head of Lab, Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York

Photos

Me, at 2 years, April 2004, Jan 2006, March 2006
My first trip to China, Great Wall 1991: Cancer meeting organized by Yin Yao
Birthday celebration
Arnold Ott and Schaffhausen . Article on the 75^th anniversary of his death, published 3 Oct 1985 in the Schaffhauser Nachrichten.
Ott (Schaffhausen) family tree spanning Switzerland and America, going back to the 1500s, and accompanying graphs
Georg Ott family tree as recorded 1842
In memoriam of Richard Spielman. The photo was taken in 1993 at a dinner in the Oepfelchammer restaurant in Zurich, with Richard Spielman, Jean MacCluer, Robert Elston, and myself.

Awards

1993, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH: MERIT award
2007, Bonn: Medal of Honor from the German Society for Human Genetics
2008, Osaka: Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
2010, Washington DC: Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics

Jurg Ott

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