Prof. Dr. Maris Laan

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsBioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
Keywordshuman genome, linkage disequilibrium, random genomic regions, demographic history, "Finnish diseases"

Current contact address

CountryEstonia
CityTartu
InstitutionUniversity of Tartu
InstituteInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Svante PääboLehrstuhl für Zoologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/1997

Programme(s)

1997Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2005Maris Laan, Victor Wiebe, Elza Khusnutdinova, Maido Remm, Svante Pääbo: X-chromosome as a marker for population history: linkage disequilibrium and haplotype study in Eurasian populations. In: European Journal of Human Genetics, 2005, 452-462
2002Henrik Kaessmann, Sebastian Zöllner, Anna C. Gustafsson, Victor Wiebe, Maris Laan, Joakim Lundeberg, Mathias Uhlen, Svante Pääbo: Extensive Linkage Diseqilibrium in Small Human Populations in Eurasia. In: Am. J. Hum. Genet., 2002, 673-685
2000Teppo Varilo, Maris Laan, Iris Hovatta, Victor Wiebe, Joseph D. Terwilliger, Leena Peltonen: Linkage disequilibrium in isolated populations: Finland and a young sub-population of Kuusamo. In: European Journal of Human Genetics, 2000, 604-612