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Identify elements of women’s omics profiles associated with menopausal status and time since menopause

Marisa Medina - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus

There are a limited number of human omics datasets that include menopausal status information for female subjects and include enough premenopausal and postmenopausal women. For instance, multi-omics data has been generated for thousands of Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants and hundreds of TwinsUK female twin pairs. We will compare...

Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science

Identify genetic and other factors associated with the trajectories of women’s LDL-cholesterol levels and blood pressure during the menopausal transition.

Marisa Medina - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus

A subset of women experience an accelerated rise in certain cardiometabolic risk factors around the time of menopause, increasing their risk for heart disease and other conditions. We would like to discover why some women experience dramatic changes while others are relatively protected...

Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science