Nationality Israeli and American Residence Sheffield, United Kingdom | Alma mater University of Houston Doctoral advisor Dan Graur | |
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Institutions Johns Hopkins University, University of Sheffield Fields Genetics, Bioinformatics, Population genetics | ||
Eran Elhaik (born 1980 in Israel) is an Israeli-American geneticist and bioinformatician. His research uses computational, statistical, epidemiological and mathematical approaches to fields such as complex disorders, population genetics, personalised medicine, molecular evolution, genomics, paleogenomics and epigenetics.
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Gps dna dr eran elhaik at wdytya 2015
Career
After completing undergraduate studies in Israel, he obtained a PhD in molecular evolution under the supervision of Dan Graur at the University of Houston in 2009, followed by postdoctoral research fellowships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School of Public Health. Since 2014 he works at the University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences.
Research
In the field of molecular evolution, Elhaik worked on the compositional domain model that describes the compositional organization of animal genomes.
In the field of complex disorders, he proposed that the allostatic load theory could be used to explain bipolar disorder and Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). According to this theory, the accumulation of perinatal and prenatal stressors has neurotoxic effects with consequences to one's health.
In the field of genetics, Elhaik was part of the team that designed the GenoChip microarray for the Genographic Project and their online tests. He also contributed to the development of algorithms for data compression.
In the field of population genetics, Elhaik has published papers analyzing the ancestries of European Jews and Druze, including work related to the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, a contentious subject that has received media attention.