Penelope Bonnen

Penelope Bonnen, an Associate Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Bonnen is applying her acumen in bioinformatics and human genetics to gene discovery studies for an array of phenotypes and diseases including disorders caused by mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer. The Bonnen lab develops and applies methods for analyzing next-generation sequence data and interpretation of human variation. We collaborate closely with clinicians to translate our findings to clinical and diagnostic settings.

Specialties: human genetics, genomics, functional genomics, bioinformatics, population genetics, mitochondrial disease, metabolic disease, cancer, NGS