Lynn Jorde, PhD

Dr. Lynn Jorde is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, and Executive Director of the Utah Genome Project, a large-scale initiative to whole-genome sequence and identify genes in several thousand members of large Utah kindreds contained in the Utah Population Database. Dr. Jorde is an expert in human genetic variation, evolution, and disease, and is lead author of the textbook Medical Genetics.