Chung Tung Augustine Kong is a statistical geneticist who is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the
University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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's Nuffield Department of Medicine, where he is also the Senior Group Leader in Genomic Epidemiology. He was previously the head of the statistics team at the
Iceland
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ic company
deCODE genetics
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, and before that, he taught at the
University of Chicago
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. He has conducted research on the genetic basis of
educational attainment Educational attainment is a term commonly used by statisticians to refer to the highest degree of education an individual has completed as defined by the US Census Bureau Glossary.
See also
*Academic achievement
*Academic degree
*Bachelor's degree
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and the way in which it can be influenced by "genetic nurture", or the genes carried by parents but not passed on to their children.
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Faculty profile*
Statistical geneticists
Living people
Harvard University alumni
University of Chicago faculty
Academics of the University of Oxford
Human geneticists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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