Welcome to Jurg Ott's Personal Website
Dr. Jurg Ott is a renowned scholar and pioneer in the field of human genetic linkage analysis. Ott was born and raised in Switzerland, where he also received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich. Subsequently, he obtained an M.S. degree in Biomathematics from the University of Washington in Seattle. From 1986-1996, he was a professor at Columbia University in New York, departments of Psychiatry and Genetics & Development. From 1996-2009 he was a Professor at Rockefeller University in New York, where he is now a Professor Emeritus and Head of Laboratory. In Beijing, he served as a professor at the Beijing Institute of Genomics CAS through 2010 and moved to the Institute of Psychology CAS as a Visiting Professor in 2011.
The Rockefeller list of genetics software hosted on GitHub maintained by Jurg Ott and his former student Gao Wang.
The 21 issues of the Linkage Newsletter, published in a 10-year period between 1987 and 1998.
Written by Joseph D. Terwilliger and Jurg Ott.
Dr. Ott’s publications.
List of short courses of genetics analysis.
List of Dr. Ott’s former and current scientific associates.
Posts
Computer Programs
- RunPM A wrapper for
pseudomarker, which combines linkage and association analysis and treats marker allele frequencies as nuisance parameters - GPM A suite of programs for genotype pattern mining, i.e. evaluation of all pairs of genotypes and testing whether their frequencies differ in cases and controls. Users can apply these programs, or their own programs, to published datasets.
- DNT Based on genotype pairs obtained from GPM above, DNT finds SNPs significantly connected with other SNPs.
- Genetic case-control data previously published in my lab.
Links
- Webpage containing Dr. Ott’s computer programs, program manuals, bibliography and some other information of interest to statistical geneticists.
- A complete list of short courses taught by Jurg Ott and his associates.
- Resources for college students with visual impairments.