Janet Suzanne Sinsheimer (August 28, 1957 – March 14, 2023)[1][2] was an American expert in statistical genetics who worked as a professor of human genetics, biomathematics and biostatistics in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[3] Topics in her research included genome-wide association studies, epigenetics, and Bayesian methods for phylogenetics.
She earned a master's degree in biochemistry in 1985 from Brandeis University, a second master's degree in biomathematics in 1988 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Ph.D. in biomathematics in 1994 from UCLA.
[5] Sinsheimer became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2013.
[7] In 2017 the Boston University Department of Biostatistics gave her the L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics.