Fernando Augusto de Lima Marson
Professor of Medical Genetics and Statistics
University of Campinas
Brazil
Researcher from Unicamp acting in the multidisciplinary research group of Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis, being one of the responsible by the Medical Genetics studies, including the studies of Asthma prevalence and severity, and with Cystic Fibrosis, with studies with CFTR mutations screening, cystic fibrosis diagnosis and clinical modulation by modifier genes. Is responsible for the statistical analysis of: (i) modifier genes and severity of respiratory diseases, (ii) methods for CF diagnosis, (iii) epidemiological analysis, (iv) risk factor for the cancer, (v) bacteria modulation in clinical severity of CF, (vi) and in the use of Mutifactor Dimensionallity Reduction tool. In the total, more than forty studies were published in the area of genetics and respiratory diseases in the last three years. Actually, acts as a biostatistician in the Brazilian Study Groups for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and Medical Genetics Group led by Professor Carmen Silvia Bertuzzo and by Professor Titular José Dirceu Ribeiro.
Lung Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Asthma, Modifier Genes, Cancer, Personalized medicine.
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