Profiles of Faculty Group Leaders
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![]() | germ cell immortality, telomeres and telomerase | ![]() | genetics and cell biology of RNP assembly transport, developmental regulation of protein arginine methylation, drosophila and mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy | ||
| synthetic virology, gene therapy, virus-host interactions | ![]() | Virginia Miller, PhD | |||
| Art Aylsworth, MD clinical genetics, phenotype delineation | ![]() |
complex traits, genetics of type 2 diabetes | ||
![]() | medical genetics, clinical cancer genetics, personalized medicine | ![]() | Joe Muenzer, MD, PhD inborn errors of metabolism
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![]() | mouse models of human disease, |
| ![]() | female meiosis, chromosome segregation, non-Mendelian genetics | |
| adrenomedullin, RAMPs, gene targeting, mouse models, preeclampsia, hypertension, reproduction, pregnancy
| ![]() | breast cancer, genomics, microarrays, tumor classification, drug resistance | |||
![]() | bioinformatics, liver cancer, sequencing technologies | ![]() | neural induction, neurogenesis, SOX proteins | ||
![]() | mouse genetics; systems genetics; QTL; gene expression; statistics; evolution | ![]() | genetic architecture of complex traits, with an emphasis on obesity and body weight regulation | ||
![]() | Frank L. Conlon, PhD heart development, mesodermal patterning, T box genes | ![]() |
Dysmorphology and birth defects
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![]() | Mechanisms of transcription factor deregulation in cancer development | ![]() | Renal cel carcinoma, von Hippel Landau tumor gene, biologically active treatment protocols | ||
![]() | medical genetics, clinical cancer genetics, pharmacogenomics | ![]() | lymphoma, the study of polymorphisms | ||
![]() | Associate Department Chairhuman molecular genetics, somatic cell genetics, genetic instability | ![]() | cancer genetics, tumor suppressor genes, mouse tumor models, cell cycle and senescence | ||
![]() | viral pathogenesis, virus-host interactions, genetics of virulence, vaccine development | ![]() | complex traits in humans, psychiatric genetics, pharmacogenetics, twin studies, schizophrenia, major depression, nicotine dependence | ||
![]() | mouse models of human disease genes | ![]() | eQTL studies, tiling array data analysis, statistical genetics, dimension reduction, multiple testing | ||
![]() | complex disease models, statistical genetics | ![]() | disease susceptibility, complex traits/QTLs, gastrointestinal biology, microarrays | ||
![]() | Genetics of complex diseases, genetics of chronic inflammation, cardiovascular disease, asthma | | William Valdar, PhD mapping of complex disease loci in animal models, statistical genetics | ||
![]() | Statistical Genetics | ![]() | molecular carcinogenesis | ||
![]() | Department Chairmammalian genetics/genomics, developmental genetics
| ![]() | genetic mapping of susceptibility loci for complex traits and the positional cloning of genes responsible for neurodegenerative disorders | ||
![]() | coronary development, vascular stem cells, angiogenesis |
Department of Genetics - UNC School of Medicine


































