Robbee Wedow
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Contact Information Email: rwedow@purdue.edu Office: 333A STON Map Homepage: Homepage |
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science PubMed Listing  Google Scholar Listing  View Vita
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Robbee Wedow is an assistant professor of sociology and data science at Purdue University. His main research interests are in statistical & computational genetics, behavioral genetics, and gene–environment interactions. He uses recent advances in genetic data collection, biobank-scale data, and methodological developments in statistical genetics to carry out his research.
Pillars of Interdisciplinary Research Excellence
Enhancing Biological and Physical Function in Later Life; Preserving Cognitive Function, Social Contexts and Policy for Optimal Aging
Education
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
PhD University of Colorado Boulder 2018
Research Interests
Population health inequalities; gene-environment interactions; scientific knowledge; social demography; statistical genetics; Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Related Dementias
Teaching Interests
Computational methods; genetics; health
Grants
2023 - Purdue University Health & Life Sciences Faculty Summit Grant
2021 - National Science Foundation
2020 - National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging
Selected Publications
Carey C, Shafee R, Wedow R,... , Neale B, Walters R, and Robinson E. 2024. Principled Distillation of UK Biobank Phenotype Data Reveals Underlying Structure in Human Variation. Nature Human Behavior.
Mignogna, G, Carey C, Wedow R,... , Nivard M, Neale B, Walters R, and Ganna A. 2023. Patterns of Item Nonresponse Behavior to Survey Questionnaires are Systematic and Associated with Genetic Loci. Nature Human Behavior.
Liu M, Jiang Y, Wedow R, Li Y,... , Abecasis G, Liu D, and Vrieze S. 2019. Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use. Nature Genetics.
Wedow R, Zacher M, Huibregtse B, Harris K, Domingue B, and Boardman J. 2018. Education, smoking, and cohort change: Forwarding a multidimensional theory of the environmental moderation of genetic effects. American Sociological Review.
Lee J, Wedow R, Okbay A,... , Turley P, Visscher P, Benjamin D, and Cesarini D. 2018. Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment. Nature Genetics.
Turley P, Walters R, Maghzian O, Okbay A, Lee J, Fontana M, Nguyen-Viet T, Wedow R, Zacher M,... , Visscher P, Laibson D, Cesarini D, Neale B, and Benjamin D. 2018. Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide summary statistics using MTAG. Nature Genetics.