The Myers laboratory uses genetic, genomic and computational techniques to study a variety of problems concerned with understanding the molecular bases of human inherited traits, including diseases, the regulation of gene expression at a genome-wide level, and, more recently, evolution. These projects are done at the Medical School campus and at the Stanford Human Genome Center, another laboratory directed by Dr. Myers, in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Of note:

June 2007: We published a paper with Dr. Barbara Wold and her lab at Caltech describing ChIPSeq. See: Johnson, D. S., Mortazavi, A., Myers, R. M. and Wold, B. (2007). Genome-wide mapping of in vivo protein DNA interactions. Science. 316: 1497-1502. See also: Perspective by Stanley Fields. Science 316: 1441-1442.

September 2007: Our lab (led by Devin Absher and Jun Li), in collaboration with Marc Feldman, Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Greg Barsh and Hua Tang, has analyzed genomic DNA from 1,043 individuals from around the world from the HGDP/CEPH collection by genotyping 650,000 positions in the genome in each individual. While we await publication of our analysis of this study, we are making the data available at http://shgc.stanford.edu/hgdp/. Please note the stipulations on the web site for pre-publication use of the data.

See Rick Myers's Stanford Academic Profile at: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=facProfile&fid=4253