Augustine Kong
Statistical geneticist
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Chung Tung Augustine Kong is a statistical geneticist who is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine, where he is also the Senior Group Leader in Genomic Epidemiology.[1] He was previously the head of the statistics team at the Icelandic company deCODE genetics, and before that, he taught at the University of Chicago.[2] He has conducted research on the genetic basis of educational attainment[3] and the way in which it can be influenced by "genetic nurture", or the genes carried by parents but not passed on to their children.[4][5]
Augustine Kong | |
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| Born | Chung Tung Augustine Kong |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical genetics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago deCODE genetics University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Multivariate belief functions and graphical models (1986) |
| Arthur Pentland Dempster | |
Doctoral students | Jun S. Liu |
