Professor Andrew Collins BSc (Hons.), MSc, PhD
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics

Professor Andrew Collins is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Professor Collins began his academic career in Southampton in 1989 and was appointed head of the Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics research group in 2002. He has developed diverse research projects spanning non-disjunction and aberrant recombination patterns, bioinformatic prediction of imprinted and disease genes, biological properties of chromosomes, segregation analysis, autozygosity mapping, and linkage mapping studies for various diseases, genome-wide association mapping and next generation sequencing.
He is currently working on the genetic basis of cleft lip and palate, breast cancer and leukemia, along with methodology for analysis of next generation sequencing data and patterns of linkage disequilibrium in human and non-human genomes. Google Scholar:
Qualifications
BSc (Hons.) Zoology, University of Nottingham (1982).
MSc Biological Computation, University of York (1989)
PhD, University of Southampton (1994).
Appointments held
Senior research fellow, Human Genetics, University of Southampton, 1995-1996
Non-clinical lecturer, Human Genetics, University of Southampton,1997-2001
Reader, Human Genetics, University of Southampton, 2001-2005