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Naomi Wray

Naomi Wray

Australian statistical geneticist and researcher

Naomi Ruth Wray FAA FAHMS is an Australian statistical geneticist at the University of Queensland, where she is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and an Affiliate Professor in the Queensland Brain Institute. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow and, along with Peter Visscher and Jian Yang, is one of the three executive team members of the NHMRC-funded Program in Complex Trait Genomics.[2] Naomi pioneered the use of polygenic scores in human genetics, and has made significant contributions to both the development of methods and their clinical use.

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Education and career

Wray has a B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh (1984),[3] and an M.S. from Cornell University in 1986.[4] She earned her Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Edinburgh where she worked on population genetics.[5]

Selected publications

  • "Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression". Nature Genetics. 50 (5): 668–681. 2018. doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0090-3. ISSN 1061-4036. PMC 5934326. PMID 29700475.
  • Visscher, Peter M.; Wray, Naomi R.; Zhang, Qian; Sklar, Pamela; McCarthy, Mark I.; Brown, Matthew A.; Yang, Jian (6 July 2017). "10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation". The American Journal of Human Genetics. 101 (1): 5–22. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.06.005. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 5501872. PMID 28686856.
  • Wray, Naomi R.; Yang, Jian; Hayes, Ben J.; Price, Alkes L.; Goddard, Michael E.; Visscher, Peter M. (2013). "Pitfalls of predicting complex traits from SNPs". Nature Reviews Genetics. 14 (7): 507–515. doi:10.1038/nrg3457. ISSN 1471-0056. PMC 4096801. PMID 23774735.
  • Wray, Naomi R.; Goddard, Michael E.; Visscher, Peter M. (1 October 2007). "Prediction of individual genetic risk to disease from genome-wide association studies". Genome Research. 17 (10): 1520–1528. doi:10.1101/gr.6665407. ISSN 1088-9051. PMC 1987352. PMID 17785532.

Awards and honors

She was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016[6][7] and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.

References

  1. [1]
    "Naomi Wray". Program in Complex Trait Genomics. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Academy elects 28 new Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. [3]
    "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  4. [4]
    Wray, Naomi Ruth (1986). Analysis of gestation lengths in American Simmental cattle (Thesis). OCLC 63341482.
  5. [5]
    Wray, Naomi Ruth (1989). Consequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs. University of Edinburgh. OCLC 556698761.
  6. [6]
    "Professor Naomi Wray". Queensland Brain Institute. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  7. [7]
    "Professor Naomi Ruth Wray". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 19 August 2018.


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