Kathryn Step, PhD

Stellenbosch University

Cape Town, South Africa

Area of Focus

GWAS
Polygenic Risk Score (PRS)
Genetics of Parkinson’s
Trainee
Parkinson's disease
Genetics
GP2 PhD
admixture
Neurobooster Array

Biography

Currently, I am a PhD student at Stellenbosch University, my research focuses on association analysis approaches to identify susceptibility variants for PD in the South African population. I completed my Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Genetics in 2019 (University of the Free State, South Africa), Bachelor of Science Honours in Genetics in 2020 (University of the Free State, South Africa), and my Master of Science in Human Genetics in 2022 (Stellenbosch University, South Africa).