Languages

• English, fluent.

Publications

• Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism. Nature,Oct 29. doi: 10.1038/nature13772. [Epub ahead of print]. Accepted, 10/29/2014.
• Identifying rare variants for genetic risk through a combined pedigree and phenotype approach: application to suicide and asthma. Transl Psychiatry, Oct 21;4:e471. doi: 10.1038/tp.2014.111. Accepted, 10/21/2014.
• The Autism Simplex Collection: an international, expertly phenotyped autism sample for genetic and phenotypic analyses. Mol Autism, May 20;5:34. doi: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-34. eCollection 2014. Accepted, 05/20/2014.
• A unified test of linkage analysis and rare-variant association for analysis of pedigree sequence data. Nat Biotechnol, Jul;32(7):663-9. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2895. Epub 2014 May 18. Accepted, 05/2014.
• Association of the CHRNA4 neuronal nicotinic receptor subunit gene with frequency of binge drinking in young adults. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, Apr;38(4):930-7. doi: 10.1111/acer.12319. Epub 2014 Jan 15. Accepted, 01/15/2014.
• Genetic risk factors in two Utah pedigrees at high risk for suicide. Transl Psychiatry, Nov 19;3:e325. doi: 10.1038/tp.2013.100. Accepted, 11/19/2013.
• Distinct loci in the CHRNA5/CHRNA3/CHRNB4 gene cluster are associated with onset of regular smoking. Genet Epidemiol, Dec;37(8):846-59. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21760. Epub 2013 Nov 1. Accepted, 11/01/2013.
• Maternal prenatal weight gain and autism spectrum disorders. Pediatrics,Nov;132(5):e1276-83. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-1188. Epub 2013 Oct 28. Accepted, 10/28/2013.
• Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis.Lancet, Apr 20;381(9875):1371-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62129-1. Epub 2013 Feb 28. Accepted, 02/2013.