Bao-Zhu Yang, PhD

My research focus in the past few years includes investigation of issues related to population stratification for case control association studies, structured association analysis, gene-environment interaction, haplotype analysis, and admixture mapping, and applied these analytical methods in finding genetic bases of psychiatric disorders such as childhood depression, alcoholism, drug dependence, nicotine dependence, post traumatic stress disorder. Currently, I devote myself to mapping genes for comorbidity of substance use disorders and depression using linkage and association methods under the support of an NIH K01 career development award.