63526-Wedow, Robbee

Robbee Wedow, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical & Molecular Genetics

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science, Purdue University

Email
rwedow@iu.edu
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Indianapolis, IN
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Bio

Robbee Wedow is an assistant professor of sociology and data science at Purdue University. His main research interests are in statistical & computational genetics, behavioral genetics, and gene-environment interactions. He uses recent advances in genetic data collection, biobank-scale data, and methodological developments in statistical genetics to carry out his research. 

Key Publications

Carey, Caitlin, Rebecca Shafee, Robbee Wedow, …, Benjamin Neale, Raymond Walters, and Elise Robinson. 2024. Principled Distillation of UK Biobank Phenotype Data Reveals Underlying Structure in Human Variation. Nature Human Behavior. 

Mignogna, Gianmarco*, Caitlin Carey*, Robbee Wedow*, ..., Michel Nivard, Benjamin Neale, Raymond Walters, and Andrea Ganna. 2023. Patterns of Item Nonresponse Behavior to Survey Questionnaires are Systematic and Associated with Genetic Loci. Nature Human Behavior. 

Liu M*, Jiang Y*, Wedow R*, Li Y*, …, Abecasis G, Liu D, and Vrieze S. 2019. Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use. Nature Genetics. 

Wedow R, Zacher M, Huibregtse B, Harris K, Domingue B, and Boardman J. 2018. Education, smoking, and cohort change: Forwarding a multidimensional theory of the environmental moderation of genetic effects. American Sociological Review.

Lee J*, Wedow R*, Okbay A*, …, Turley P, Visscher P, Benjamin D, and Cesarini D. 2018. Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment. Nature Genetics.

Turley P, Walters R, Maghzian O, Okbay A, Lee J, Fontana M, Nguyen-Viet T, Wedow R, Zacher M, …, Visscher P, Laibson D, Cesarini D, Neale B, and Benjamin D. 2018. Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide summary statistics using MTAG. Nature Genetics.

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