Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral fellowships in biostatistics - Genetic Research and Bioinformatics (Ref.nr. 1675 HD)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health provides knowledge about the health status in the population, which factors affect it and how it can be improved. The institute has overall responsibility for knowledge production and systematic reviews for the health sector. In addition, the institute provides scientific advice and forensic science services to the police and judiciary. The institute is responsible for national health registries, biobanks and health studies, such as the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study, and performs research, health analyses, systematic reviews and risk assessments. The institute is also active within the field of international public health. The institute's activities are divided into four domains: 1) Mental and Physical Health 2) Infection Control and Environmental Health 3) Health Data and Digitalisation and 4) Forensic Sciences. On 1st January 2016, the Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS) and the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) were incorporated into the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and a joint library for health administration was established.

There are approximately 1,400 employees located in Oslo and Bergen.

Postdoctoral fellowships in biostatistics - Genetic Research and Bioinformatics

We seek two Postdoctoral fellows to join our project “Genetics and timing of birth” at the Department of Genetic Research and Bioinformatics, NIPH, Oslo. The department currently conducts genetic research spanning molecular studies, genetic epidemiology and twin research, using unique data resources that are managed under the domain. The positions are for a period of 3 years, one with startup September 2016 and the other January 2017. Our research group is located at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Oslo) and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. We investigate genetic and environmental factors affecting human gestational age at birth. We work with unique genomic data containing more than 11 thousand family trios from Norway (coupled with a rich collection of pregnancy-related medical variables and an extensive set of validated environmental exposures), and large medical birth registers with more than 4 million pregnancies from Sweden. The project is led by Professor Bo Jacobsson. Collaborators in this project are Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati (USA) and Institute of Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (USA). The project is financially supported by grants from Norwegian Research Council.

Job description

• During your three years of post-doctoral research in our group, we will invite you to utilise the following methodologies (links to example studies are given in parentheses):
• Genome-wide association studies and their meta-analyses (http://goo.gl/mu2HMc )
• Detection of parent-of-origin effects (POE) using family trio data and GWAS (http://goo.gl/AsAmR3 )
• Inferring POE from phenotypic variance in heterozygous and homozygous groups (http://goo.gl/kER4i1 )
• Causal inference using Mendelian randomisation and genome phasing (http://goo.gl/58OvCV )
• Inferring rare structural variants using family trio data (http://goo.gl/19O6yL )
• Deletion detection using intensity-based methods in SNP arrays (https://goo.gl/1iO8Zq )
• Gene-environment interaction scans (http://goo.gl/ujlBla )
• Candidate-gene analysis using human-accelerated regions (
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  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Folkehelseinstituttet
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0456 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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