A collaboration including Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital’s Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) has produced a breakthrough in how to ...

New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes, influenced both by the patterns of secondary variants, or genetic background, and by how ...

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Chad Shaw, a statistician with joint appointments at Rice and Baylor and a faculty member at the NRI. Shaw is also the director of Rice’s Data to Knowledge Lab. A collaboration between Rice University ...