Human and Statistical Genetics

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Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics

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Cellular, Molecular, And Genetic Studies Of Cardiac Hypertrophy And Heart Failure

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cell death, cell signaling, genetic epidemiology, heart failure

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Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics

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Human Psychiatric Genetics, Mouse Models, Cell Type Specific Gene Expression Profiling, Translation, Astrocytes.

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autism, gene expression profiling, genetics, genomics, mouse models, neurobiology, astrocytes, translation regulation

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Identifying preventive strategies to reduce cancer disparities

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Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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centrioles, cilia, signal transduction, cytoskeleton,

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics

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We develop new computational and experimental approaches to understand the roles of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in neurodevelopment and cancer

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bioinformatics, cancer, cancer genomics, epigenetics, epigenomics, neurodevelopment, transcriptional regulation

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Asking and answering critical questions to guide clinical practice and ameliorate childhood suffering due to staphylococcal disease

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Staphylococcus aureus; antibiotic resistance; epidemiology; infection treatment and prevention; genomic determinants of disease; host immune response

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Human and Statistical Genetics
Computational and Systems Biology

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Statistical genetics and bioinformatics, high-dimensional data analysis and complex systems modeling, developing novel methodologies for detecting complex disease genes and characterizing their function

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genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Neurosciences

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Genetic underpinnings of neurological/neurosurgical disorders

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rare variants, Chiari I malformation, human genetics, neurosurgery, Deep Mutation Scanning, Mutagenesis, Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and methodological research in genetic epidemiology

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substance abuse, development, modeling, psychiatry, quantitative genetics

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Cancer prevention and control, health disparities and community-based research

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