Jonathan K. Pritchard

Who is Jonathan K. Pritchard?

Jonathan Pritchard is a professor of human genetics at The University

of Chicago. His work focuses on applications of statistics and

population genetics to the study of human genetic variation. Dr.

Pritchard has made key contributions to the understanding of human

population structure and human evolution, and to statistical methods

for identifying the genetic basis of common disease. In 2000, with

coworkers Matthew Stephens and Peter Donnelly, he developed the

structure algorithm, a clustering method for studying population

structure and estimating the ancestry of individuals. The structure

method is now used in a wide range of applications in genetics, and has

been applied in well over 1000 scientific papers. Dr. Pritchard

received B.S. degrees in mathematics and biology from Pennsylvania

State University (1994), and a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford

University (1998). He was a postdoctoral fellow in statistics at the

University of Oxford prior to joining the faculty at The University of

Chicago in 2001.