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

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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, the biological properties of chromosomes, segregation analysis, autozygosity mapping, and linkage mapping studies for various diseases, genome-wide association mapping and next generation sequencing. Recent research projects include: the development and application of machine learning methods to determine the genetic basis of early onset breast cancer; bioinformatic analyses of next-generation sequencing data and application to cancer genomes; approaches to meta-analysis to identify genetic factors influencing survival in early onset breast cancer and the genetic basis of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
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