Jan O. Korbel (born 1975) is a German scientist working in the fields of Human Genetics, Genomics and Computational Biology. He is a tenured principal investigator and Head of Data Science at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany, and one of the co-directors jointly heading the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) of the EMBL and the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. A particular focus of the Korbel group is on investigating a particular form of mutation, genomic structural variation, which includes deletions, inversions and more complex chromosomal rearrangements such as chromothripsis events that can occur in healthy individuals and in context of disease. His group's principal research objective is to understand genomic structural variations as a basis of phenotypic variation and cancer development.
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