Present Position:

Group Director

Professional history & List of
5 most important papers

1985-1989: B.S., Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo

1989-1991: M.S., Department of Physics (Elementary Particle Physics), The University of Tokyo

1992-1995: Ph.D., Department of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

1995-1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Kyoto University

1997-1998: Research Associate, The Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

1998-2000: Assistant Professor, The Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

2000-present: Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Medical Informatics, SNP Research Center (2008-present: Center for Genomic Medicine), RIKEN

2011-present: Director, Research Group for Medical Informatics, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN
Degrees: Ph.D. (Medicine) & Ph.D. (Engineering)

1. A.Fujimoto, H.Nakagawa, N.Hosono, K.Nakano, T.Abe, K.A.Boroevich, M.Nagasaki, R.Yamaguchi, T.Shibuya, M.Kubo, S.Miyano, Y.Nakamura, and T.Tsunoda. Whole genome sequencing and comprehensive variant analysis of a Japanese individual using massively parallel sequencing. Nature Genetics, 42, 931-936 (2010).
2. The International Cancer Genome Consortium. International network of cancer genome projects. Nature, 464, 993-998 (2010).
3. The International HapMap Consortium. A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. Nature, 449, 851-862 (2007).
4. T.Tsunoda, G.M.Lathrop, A.Sekine, R.Yamada, A.Takahashi, Y.Ohnishi, T.Tanaka, and Y.Nakamura. Variation of gene-based SNPs and linkage disequilibrium patterns in the human genome. Human Molecular Genetics, 13, 1623-1632 (2004).
5. K.Ozaki, Y.Ohnishi, A.Iida, A.Sekine, R.Yamada, T.Tsunoda, H.Sato, H.Sato, M.Hori, Y.Nakamura, and T.Tanaka. Functional SNPs in the lymphotoxin-alpha gene that are associated with susceptibility to myocardial infarction. Nature Genetics, 32, 650-654 (2002).