Faculty Profile

Yuval Simons
Section of Genetic Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Yuval.simons@bsd.uchicago.edu

Academic Interests

The evolution and genetic architecture of human complex traits and diseases. Population genetics, quantitative genetics, statistical genetics, mathematical models of biological processes.
 

Clinical Interests

 

Publications

  • Y.B. Simons, H. Mostafavi, C.J. Smith, J.K. Pritchard, and G. Sella, 2022. Simple scaling laws control the genetic architectures of human complex traits. BioRxiv 2022.10.04.509926
  • Y.B. Simons, K. Bullaughey, R.R. Hudson, and G. Sella, 2018. A population genetic interpretation of GWAS findings for human quantitative traits. PLOS Biology 16, e2002985
  • Y.B. Simons and G. Sella, 2016. The impact of recent population history on the deleterious mutation load in humans and close evolutionary relatives. Curr. Opin. Genet. 41, 150–158
  • Y.B. Simons, M.C. Turchin, J.K. Pritchard and G. Sella, 2014. The deleterious mutation load is insensitive to recent population history. Nature Genetics 46, 220-224

Training

  • M.Sc, 2012, Weizmann Institute, Physics
  • PhD, 2019, Columbia University, Biology
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023, Stanford Medicine, Department of Genetics