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Joel Gelernter, MD

Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience
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Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry)

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Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience

Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry)

Biography

Joel Gelernter, MD, is Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and Neurobiology; and Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry), at the Yale University School of Medicine.

The research focus of his laboratory is genetics of psychiatric illness – phenotypes including cocaine, opioid, nicotine, cannabis, and alcohol dependence, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and panic and other anxiety disorders. He also studies a range of related phenotypes, including pharmacogenomics; and basic issues in population and complex trait genetics. The overall approach involves study of genetic polymorphism and sequence variation, on a molecular level and from the perspective of population genetics. Dr Gelernter’s laboratory published genomewide association studies (GWAS) for cocaine, cannabis, and opioid dependence, PTSD, alcohol dependence, nicotine dependence, and several related traits. All of these studies have resulted in the identification of novel risk loci.

Appointments

Education & Training

Fellowship
Psychiatric genetics, NIMH (1988)
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center (1983)
BS
Yale University, Music & Biology (1979)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Affective Disorders, Psychotic; Alcoholism; Anxiety Disorders; China; Genetics; Genetics, Population; Global Health; Israel; Polymorphism, Genetic; Psychiatry; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Substance-Related Disorders; Thailand

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Joel Gelernter's published research.

Publications

Featured Publications

Clinical Trials

Current Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Substance use disorder genetics

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Psychiatry

VA CT Healthcare Center S116A2, 950 Campbell Avenue

West Haven, CT 06516

United States

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