Melissa Gymrek, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Medicine University of California San Diego Dissecting the contribution of repetitive genetic variation to human traits Recent studies have made substantial progress in identifying genetic variants associated with disease and molecular phenotypes in humans. However, these studies have primarily focused on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), ignoring more complex variants that have been shown to play important functional roles. Here, I focus on short tandem repeats (STRs), one of the most…