Johanna Jakobsdottir

I am a fifth year graduate student in the Statistical Genetics Program in the Department of Biostatistics at University of Pittsburgh. My advisor is Dr. Daniel E. Weeks. PDF version of my CV

Thesis work

My thesis work includes my GSR work and a therotical part on score statistics in linkage analysis. I had my oral defense April 1, 2009 and will be graduating this spring. July 1, I will start my postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Mary Sara McPeek, in the Department of Statistics, University of Chicago.

GSR work

My GSR work is on the genetics of age-related maculopathy (GARM). This is a wonderful project I really like working on. Two very important genes have been discovered for the disease. The group I am part of was the first to discover one of them. The PI of the project is Dr. Michael B. Gorin and other members of the group are Dr. Yvette P. Conley, Dr. Robert E. Ferrell, and Dr. Daniel E. Weeks.

Publications

• Jakobsdottir J, Gorin MB, Conley YP, Ferrell RE, and Weeks DE. Interpretation of genetic association studies: Markers with widely replicated highly significant odds ratios may be poor classifiers. PLoS Genetics. In press
  
• Jakobsdottir J, Conley YP, Weeks DE, Ferrell RE, Gorin MB. C2 and CFB Genes in Age-Related Maculopathy and Joint Action with CFH and LOC387715 Genes. PLoS ONE 2008. 3(5): e2199. HTML   PDF
  
• Jakobsdottir J, Weeks DE. Estimating prevalence, false-positive rate, and false-negative rate with use of repeated testing when true responses are unknown. Am J Hum Genet. 2007. 81(5):1111-3. HTML   PDF
  
• Conley YP, Jakobsdottir J, Mah T, Weeks DE, Klein R, Kuller L, Ferrell RE, Gorin MB. CFH, ELOVL4, PLEKHA1 and LOC387715 genes and susceptibility to age-related maculopathy: AREDS and CHS cohorts and meta-analyses. Hum Mol Genet. 2006. 15(21):3206-18. Abstract   HTML   PDF
  
• Jakobsdottir J, Conley YP, Weeks DE, Mah TS, Ferrell RE, Gorin MB. Susceptibility genes for age-related maculopathy on chromosome 10q26. Am J Hum Genet. 2005. 77(3):389-407. Abstract   HTML   PDF
  
• Conley YP, Thalamuthu A, Jakobsdottir J, Weeks DE, Mah T, Ferrell RE, Gorin MB. Candidate gene analysis suggests a role for fatty acid biosynthesis and regulation of the complement system in the etiology of age-related maculopathy. Hum Mol Genet. 2005. 14(14):1991-2002. Abstract   HTML   PDF

Personal

I am married to Pall Melsted, a graduate student in the ACO program in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at CMU. We have one daugther, Greta Bjorg. We came to Pittsburgh from our native Iceland in 2004.

Email: joj8 at pitt dot edu

Updated: April 9th 2009