Sharon Ruth Browning is a statistical geneticist at the University of Washington,[1] and a research professor with its Department of Biostatistics.
[6] Browning is known for her research developing statistical methods for analysis of population genetic data.
Her early work established the used of Markov chain modeling to examine association based genome mapping.
[7] Her work addresses how to handle missing data in whole-genome association studies.
[8][9] She has also defined the use of group association tests[10] and examined relatedness of individuals based on shared gene content.