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Details for Dr Tom Gaunt
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Tom Gaunt |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Department | School of Social and Community Medicine University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/people/tom-r-gaunt/index.html |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | BSc, PhD(Soton) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | molecular genetics cardiovascular disease obesity genes bioinformatics genome-wide association |
| Areas of expertise | Molecular Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and obesity: I am funded by the British Heart Foundation and Medical Research Council to investigate the role of genes in heart disease and related traits in the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Bioinformatics and computational biology, including: integration of genome-wide association study data, identification of Splicing and Translational Efficiency Polymorphisms (STEPs), pathway informatics and LD/haplotype analysis. |