Charleston W.K. Chiang

Graduate Student
Hirschhorn Lab

Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Program in
Medical & Population Genetics
Broad Institute
Cambridge, MA

Charleston, SC: "A city in the counties of Berkeley and Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina... The city was founded as Charlestown or Charles Towne, Carolina in 1670, and moved to its present location in 1680."
 - Wiki

Charleston, the dance: "The rhythm was popularized in the United States of America by a 1923 tune called The Charleston by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade."
 - Wiki

Charleston Chew, the candy: "A candy bar consisting of flavored nougat covered in chocolate. Created in 1922 by the Fox-Cross Candy Company, the candy was named for the Charleston, a popular dance at that time."
 - Wiki

charleston (char), the gene: "A new regulator of nuclear morphogenesis and of apical nuclear anchoring."
 - Development 2006 Feb;133(4):711-23.

and all this... because my mom misspelled my name...

• 5th year Ph.D. student, Biological and Biomedical Science (BBS) program, Harvard Medical School
• National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellow
• Leder Human Biology and Translational Medicine Program Fellow
• B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, Mathematics and Statistics (minors) from UCLA (2005)

• Whole-exome sequencing of extreme individuals for height and BMI
• Genome-wide association study to identify genetic variants associated with BMI in an African American population
• Association of common and rare CNVs to BMI in African American cohort
• Association study of SNPs in highly conserved regions and phenotypes related to the long-term reproductive fitness
• Identification of ancestry-informative SNPs from using pooled multi-ethnic cohort DNA samples

my.pubs

follow the link above to a complete list/links/pdfs, or take your chance with pubmed.

my.cv

will try to update this frequently

my.scripts

various Perl and R scripts

my.links

various fun/weird links

my.notes

random notes and comments of things I find interesting

my.so

I date an astronomy grad student at Institute for Astronomy (ifa) in Hawaii.