Faculty
Bruce Weir
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Biostatistics
Adjunct Professor, Genome Sciences
206-221-7947
bsweir@uw.edu
Education
BSc Mathematics, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), 1965
PhD Genetics, Statistics, North Carolina State University, 1968
Contact
206-221-7947
bsweir@uw.edu
Box 359461
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Research Areas
Research Interests
Statistical methodology for genetic data with an emphasis on allelic dependencies, population structure, disease associations and relationships; use of genetic data for human identification
Recent Publications (PubMed)
Author Correction: From Mendel to quantitative genetics in the genome era: the scientific legacy of W. G. Hill.
(2022 Sep)
Nat Genet 54(9): 1448
Charlesworth B, Goddard ME, Meyer K, Visscher PM, Weir BS, Wray NR
(2022 Sep)
Nat Genet 54(9): 1448
Charlesworth B, Goddard ME, Meyer K, Visscher PM, Weir BS, Wray NR
From Mendel to quantitative genetics in the genome era: the scientific legacy of W. G. Hill.
(2022 Jul)
Nat Genet 54(7): 934-939
Charlesworth B, Goddard ME, Meyer K, Visscher PM, Weir BS, Wray NR
(2022 Jul)
Nat Genet 54(7): 934-939
Charlesworth B, Goddard ME, Meyer K, Visscher PM, Weir BS, Wray NR
How HLA diversity is apportioned: influence of selection and relevance to transplantation.
(2022 Jun 6)
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 377(1852): 20200420
MarĂ³stica AS, Nunes K, Castelli EC, Silva NSB, Weir BS, Goudet J, Meyer D
(2022 Jun 6)
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 377(1852): 20200420
MarĂ³stica AS, Nunes K, Castelli EC, Silva NSB, Weir BS, Goudet J, Meyer D
The transitivity of the Hardy-Weinberg law.
(2022 May)
Forensic Sci Int Genet 58(): 102680
Graffelman J, Weir BS
(2022 May)
Forensic Sci Int Genet 58(): 102680
Graffelman J, Weir BS
Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data.
(2022 Mar)
Nat Genet 54(3): 263-273
Wainschtein P, Jain D, Zheng Z, TOPMed Anthropometry Working Group, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Cupples LA, Shadyab AH, McKnight B, Shoemaker BM, Mitchell BD, Psaty BM, Kooperberg C, Liu CT, Albert CM, Roden D, Chasman DI, Darbar D, Lloyd-Jones DM, Arnett DK, Regan EA, Boerwinkle E, Rotter JI, O'Connell JR, Yanek LR, de Andrade M, Allison MA, McDonald MN, Chung MK, Fornage M, Chami N, Smith NL, Ellinor PT, Vasan RS, Mathias RA, Loos RJF, Rich SS, Lubitz SA, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Guo X, Chen Y-I, Laurie CA, Hernandez RD, McGarvey ST, Goddard ME, Laurie CC, North KE, Lange LA, Weir BS, Yengo L, Yang J, Visscher PM
(2022 Mar)
Nat Genet 54(3): 263-273
Wainschtein P, Jain D, Zheng Z, TOPMed Anthropometry Working Group, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Cupples LA, Shadyab AH, McKnight B, Shoemaker BM, Mitchell BD, Psaty BM, Kooperberg C, Liu CT, Albert CM, Roden D, Chasman DI, Darbar D, Lloyd-Jones DM, Arnett DK, Regan EA, Boerwinkle E, Rotter JI, O'Connell JR, Yanek LR, de Andrade M, Allison MA, McDonald MN, Chung MK, Fornage M, Chami N, Smith NL, Ellinor PT, Vasan RS, Mathias RA, Loos RJF, Rich SS, Lubitz SA, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Guo X, Chen Y-I, Laurie CA, Hernandez RD, McGarvey ST, Goddard ME, Laurie CC, North KE, Lange LA, Weir BS, Yengo L, Yang J, Visscher PM
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Weir Named to National Institute of Standards and Technology Committee
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Tracking Elephant Poachers Through Tusks
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