1. Aravinda Chakravarti was the 2008 President of the American Society of Human Genetics.
16 Facts About Aravinda Chakravarti
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Aravinda Chakravarti was born in Calcutta in 1954, his family's third son.
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Aravinda Chakravarti received his Bachelor of Statistics in 1974 from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta.
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Aravinda Chakravarti moved to the United States, where he studied with Masatoshi Nei, receiving his PhD in human genetics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1979.
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Aravinda Chakravarti took a postdoctoral position at the University of Washington in Seattle until 1980.
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Aravinda Chakravarti has a wife, Dr Shukti Aravinda Chakravarti, and two daughters, Priya and Indira.
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Aravinda Chakravarti's wife works at NYU as a professor, his daughter Priya is a special educator for Baltimore County Public Schools, and his daughter Indira works in public health at U Penn.
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In 2000, Chakravarti joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as the Henry J Knott Professor and the inaugural Director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins.
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Aravinda Chakravarti has made contributions to human genetics in areas including population, statistical genetics, and the genetics of complex disease.
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Aravinda Chakravarti has developed important genomics methods that are now used worldwide, such as linkage disequilibrium mapping, His research has contributed to understanding linkage disequilibrium and genetic variation.
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Aravinda Chakravarti has combined population genetics and genomic technology to effectively address problems in medical genetics.
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Aravinda Chakravarti helped to identify the genetic mutation involved in cystic fibrosis and discovered a genetic variant related to autism.
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Aravinda Chakravarti's methods have been used to identify recombination hotspots in hemoglobinopathies.
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Aravinda Chakravarti's team has studied Hirschsprung disease and determined the key genes and non-coding mutations responsible, demonstrating that the disease is caused by mutations of multiple genes.
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Aravinda Chakravarti has been influential in genetics research projects including the Human Genome Project, 1000 Genomes and HapMap.
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Aravinda Chakravarti was involved in designing the population genetics sampling plan for the 1000 Genomes Project.