Human Genetics and Epigenetics of Alcohol Use Disorder

Hang Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and professor of genetics and of neuroscience, are co-authors of a paper in The Journal of Clinical Investigation that reviews progress of human genetic and epigenetic study of alcohol use disorder and summarizes key future directions including applications of whole-genome sequencing, multi-omics and data science approaches.