Luke O'Connor
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics · Harvard Medical School · Harvard University
Quick answer: Luke O'Connor is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard University. Luke O'Connor shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
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Research interests
Genetic architecture of common disease, statistical methods development, translating genetic associations into biological insight
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2025] Transcriptome-wide analysis of differential expression in perturbation atlases.
[2025] Polygenic scores capture genetic modification of the adiposity-cardiometabolic risk factor relationship.
[2024] Transcriptome-wide characterization of genetic perturbations.
[2024] High-dimensional phenotyping to define the genetic basis of cellular morphology.
[2023] HAPNEST: efficient, large-scale generation and evaluation of synthetic datasets for genotypes and phenotypes.
[2023] Extremely sparse models of linkage disequilibrium in ancestrally diverse association studies.
[2023] Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes.
Frequently asked questions
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What does Luke O'Connor research?
Genetic architecture of common disease, statistical methods development, translating genetic associations into biological insight
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