Joel Gelernter MD
Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neurobiology; Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry)
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and GenomicsOffice of International Medical Student Education
Global Health Initiative: Social & Behavioral Health
Neurobiology
Genetics
Psychiatry: Division of Human Genetics | Molecular Psychiatry | Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism | VA-Yale Clinical Neurosciences PTSD Research Program | Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program | VA Alcohol Research Center
Research Interests
Complex trait genetics; Psychiatric genetics; Population genetics; Substance dependence; Gene mapping
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Education
- BS, Yale University , 1979
- M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical Center , 1983
Selected Publication
- Han S, Yang BZ, Kranzler HR, Oslin D, Anton R, Farrer LA, Gelernter J. Linkage Analysis Followed by Association Show NRG1 Associated with Cannabis Dependence in African Americans. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Apr 18. [Epub ahead of print]
Articles
December 2010
Expert on genetics of psychiatric disorders is appointed Foundations’ Fund Professor
Joel Gelernter, M.D., the newly named Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry, focuses his research on the genetics...
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