Kristin Ayers

Kristin Ayers is a statistical geneticist with a focus on genetic association studies. She earned her PhD in Biomathematics from UCLA working on methods for haplotype estimation and association. She did her Postdoc at Newcastle University in the UK focusing primarily on penalized regression methods for GWAS and rare variant analysis. A list of publications can be found here. At Mt Sinai, her current research projects involve the investigation of predicted functional variants in healthy and disease populations.