Dr. Thornton is the Robert W. Day Endowed Professor of Public Health and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington (UW) and an Affiliate Investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Thornton's research involves the development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of large-scale genomic data for the identification of genetic variants that influence complex diseases and quantitative traits. Currently, Dr. Thornton's collaborative research is largely focused on using statistical methods to identify novel genetic variants for complex traits in ancestrally diverse populations, including underrepresented minority populations in the U.S., including African Americans, Latinos, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. Dr. Thornton currently serves as a lead statistician and co-investigator of the Genetic Analysis Center for the Hispanic Community Health Study (HCHS)/Study of Latinos (SOL), and this cohort was recently included in the multi-cohort Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) II study.