As a statistical geneticist, Assoc Prof Teo Yik Ying (Faculty of
Science/Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) has developed novel
and important methodological solutions that traversed the
challenges of charting the genetics and genomics of complex
human traits as well as common and infectious diseases. He
received the Singapore Youth Award 2011 for his trailblazing
contributions in the fields of science and technology, one of
which included the Singapore Genome Variation Project. This
comprehensive research explores the genome landscape of
Singapore's three main ethnic groups – Chinese, Malay and India
– which would help shed some light on their susceptibility to
diseases such as obesity and diabetes.
