Chung Tung Augustine Kong is a statistical geneticist who is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine, where he is also the Senior Group Leader in Genomic Epidemiology.[1] He was previously the head of the statistics team at the Icelandic company deCODE genetics, and before that, he taught at the University of Chicago.[2] He has conducted research on the genetic basis of educational attainment[3] and the way in which it can be influenced by "genetic nurture", or the genes carried by parents but not passed on to their children.[4][5]
Augustine Kong | |
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| Born | Chung Tung Augustine Kong |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical genetics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago deCODE genetics University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Multivariate belief functions and graphical models (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Pentland Dempster |
| Doctoral students | Jun S. Liu |
References
edit- ^ "Augustine Kong". Oxford Big Data Institute. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Augustine Kong, PhD". New York Genome Center. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Educational attainment, 2002". doi:10.1787/458681287213. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Zimmer, Carl (2018-01-25). "You Are Shaped by the Genes You Inherit. And Maybe by Those You Don't". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ Chen, Angela (2018-01-25). "Here's how you're influenced by the genes you didn't inherit from your parents". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
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