Bruce Weir | |
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| Born | Bruce Spencer Weir 31 December 1943 |
| Education | University of Canterbury (BSc (Hons), 1965) North Carolina State University (PhD, 1968) |
| Spouse | Beth Weir |
| Children | Claudia Beth Henry Bruce |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1983) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics Statistical genetics |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Thesis | The Two Locus Inbreeding Function (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. Clark Cockerham |
| Doctoral students | Rebecca Doerge |
| Other notable students | Brandon Gaut |
Bruce Spencer Weir (born 31 December 1943)[1] is a New Zealand biostatistician and statistical geneticist. He is Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. He was previously the William Neal Reynolds Professor of statistics and genetics and director of the Bioinformatics Research Center at North Carolina State University. He is known within academia for his research in statistical and forensic genetics, and outside academia for testifying in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995.[2]
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