Alumni
This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.
After 19 years at Sanger my last working day was 14th October 2026. In November 2026 I join Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) to continue working in the Genes & Health project.
When I first started at the Sanger Institute, I joined Matt Hurles’ team as a postdoctoral fellow to work mainly on structural variations in the 1000 Genomes Project. Later I moved to Nicole Soranzo’s team as a statistical geneticist to work on many different aspects in the UK10K project, especially variant sites and sample QC, association analyses of common and rare variants, population structure, loss-of-function variants and large deletions.
My timeline
Senior Staff Scientist at Sanger Institute
Staff Scientist at Sanger Institute
PhD in Comparative Genomics (University of Cambridge)
Postdoctoral Fellow at Sanger Institute
MSc in Statistics (University of Sheffield)
Database Manager/Statistician at Department of Pathology (University of Cambridge)
Diploma in Statistics (Open University)
Internship at EBI
Mag.rer.nat. in Mathematics and Physical Education (University of Vienna)
My publications
Summary of association results across the UK10K-cohorts study.UK10K Consortium, Walter K, Min JL, Huang J, Crooks ;L, et al. (2015) The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease. Nature 2015 Oct 1;526(7571):82-90. doi: 10.1038/nature14962. Epub 2015 Sep 14. PMID: 26367797
SV discovery and genotyping in population scale sequence data. Example of a deletion, previously associated with BMI.Mills RE, Walter K, et al. (2011) Mapping structural variation at fine scale by population scale genome sequencing. Nature 470(7332):59-65 PMID: 21293372
