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	Tehdyt toimenpiteet University of Helsinki Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Genetics Group leader: Päivi Onkamo Home page: Not available As started in the beginning of this year, I do not yet have a group of my own. However, I'm planning to start it during the next year. The scientific profile I intend to have, or actually maintain, is an interplay of direct biological applications and methodological development: the deep knowledge of the application area gives the best understanding of the new methods needed - or the further development needs of the existing ones. On the other hand, strong background of close collaboration with methodological scientists gives an invaluable advantage: "common language" with methodological side, which makes successful collaboration a whole lot easier. To date, I have mostly been working with gene mapping methods - first in the invention and creation of Haplotype Pattern Mining, which is a genetic pattern search algorithm based on data mining methods - and its application on various human disease gene mapping studies. Presently, I concentrate on multi-phenotype genetic analysis on human disease, both with existing statistical approaches, and on the other hand emerging new technologies, which are being developed in e.g. collaborative groups of Hannu Toivonen and Liisa Holm. Back to the group list