We study environmental risk of common human diseases.

We use a combination of epidemiology, genetics, cellular biology, and microbiology to examine environmental risk for disease.

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A microscope picture of adipose (fat) cells growing with multiple different parts of the cells shown using different colors

Variant-to-function (V2F) interpretation of a diabetes genetic risk variant at COBLL1 which acts through changing hip circumference and actin cytoskeleton function.