Peter Joshi
Chancellor's Fellow at the Usher Institute.
Dr Joshi is a Chancellor's Fellow specialising in the genomic basis of lifespan in humans.
Peter works as part of the Population and Disease Genetic Group. His research interests include trying to improve the understanding of the genetic basis of human lifespan and common late onset chronic disease. The architecture of complex traits, particularly components of evolutionary fitness and dominance, is another area of interest.
Visit website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/peter-joshi
See also: 
University of Edinburgh Usher Institute
- Research institute at the University of Edinburgh.
Details last updated 14-May-2020
Peter Joshi News
Lifespan linked by study to mutations and lifestyle
Bio News - 23-Oct-2017
Meta study combines genetic, lifestyle and family data from 600,000 people. Looking at their par...
Read more...Two common gene variants reduce life expectancy by 3 years
ScienceAlert - 01-Apr-2016
University of Edinburgh researchers analysed genetic information from more than 152,000 people in...
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