Leif Andersson is a professor in Functional Genomics at Uppsala University and guest professor in Molecular Animal Genetics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.
His research group did pioneering work using domestic animals for genetic dissection of monogenic and multifactorial traits. The main research project includes genetic analysis of divergent intercrosses in chicken, horses, and pigs. Andersson’s group describe the genes and mutations affecting a certain trait and study the mechanism of the genes and regulatory elements affected by the mutations.
