About Hoh Boon-Peng
Research Interest:
- Molecular and Population Genetics; special interest on population genomics and evolution of the indigenous populations in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
- Genetic susceptibility of complex diseases, in particular infectious disease (dengue) and cardiovascular diseases; pharmacogenetics of hypertension
- Copy Number Variation (CNV)
"Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian 2013" under the category of Academic Achievement & Accomplishment.
Popular Content
We developed a “Southeast Asian Specific Reference Panel”. When imputing the native SEA and the SGVP datasets, this panel produced more high confidence variants, better estimated quality scores, higher recall and non-reference disconcordance rates as opposed to other public reference panels.