Jinko Graham

Dr. Jinko Graham is a Professor of Statistics at Simon Fraser University. She obtained an MSc in Statistics from University of British Columbia and a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the US National Institute of Statistical Sciences and North Carolina State University, she joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University and has been there ever since. Her research focuses on statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology and is funded by NSERC. She is particularly interested in how variation in the DNA sequences of individuals reflects their underlying genealogical relationships. These relationships can tell us about our ancestry and origins. They can also tell us about individual predisposition to inherited traits, and so are of use in mapping the genomic location of DNA variants that contribute to disease traits.