Sentences with phrase «psychiatric geneticist»

A "psychiatric geneticist" is a person who studies the relationship between genetics (inherited traits) and mental health conditions. They research how certain genes can affect a person's risk of developing mental illnesses like depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. Full definition
Although seemingly paradoxical, the finding is «potentially enormously important,» says Yale University psychiatric geneticist Joel Gelernter.
«This is a very large scale study using a new, innovative statistical method,» said study co-senior author Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized psychiatric geneticist.
Two labs headed by statistical geneticist William Valdar, PhD, and psychiatric geneticist Patrick Sullivan, MD, have developed a new statistical model that scientists can use to parse the complex genetics of side effect susceptibility.
Although this work is grounded firmly in clinical, community, and developmental psychology, lab members» approaches are interdisciplinary at their core, involving ongoing collaborations with sociologists, economists, and psychiatric geneticists from around Boston and beyond.
But the «critical flaw» in the new research is that it doesn't fully account for the fact that women suffering from psychiatric illnesses already have a greater risk of having children with ASD, says Roy Perlis, a psychiatric geneticist at Harvard University who consults for several biotechnology startups.
«I think the environment has to be taken seriously,» says lead author Joachim Hallmayer, a psychiatric geneticist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
When the genetics of being gay comes up at scientific meetings, «sometimes even behavioral geneticists kind of wrinkle up their noses,» says Kenneth Kendler, a psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
This means that if a psychiatric geneticist would make a Punnett square for two parents whose parents had chemical dependency, the Punnett square would say that 3 out of 4 of their children would be chemically dependant.â $ ™ â $ ™
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