Sentences with phrase «psychiatric geneticists»

In this episode, psychiatric geneticist Laura Jean Bierut talks about her article in the April Scientific American about the influence of genes on alcoholism.

This week on the podcast, genetics and alcoholism with psychiatric geneticist Laura Jean Bierut.

«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.

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.

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.

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 $ ™

Not exact matches

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

Geneticists are starting to unpick what causes psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and even some autism - like developmental conditions