Elizabeth "Liz" Blue, a professor in the Department of Medicine, is a statistical geneticist whose research focuses on identifying genetic variants influencing complex and Mendelian traits. While her lab focuses on genetic modifiers of Alzheimer’s disease, she is highly collaborative, actively participating in the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project, the Cystic Fibrosis Genome Project, the UW Center for Mendelian Genomics and the Pacific Northwest Undiagnosed Diseases Network. She's also a member of the Institute for Public Health Genetics. Liz earned her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Utah. She teaches Biostatistics in Genetic Counseling for the GCGP where she shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for population genetics, statistical genetics, and bioinformatics.
