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Douglas Ruderfer

Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (VGI)
Department of Medicine
Division of Genetic Medicine
Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI)
Department of Psychiatry
Center for Precision Medicine
Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI)
Human Genetics Program (HGEN)


Our group is at the intersection of genomics, biomedical informatics and psychiatry and has two broad research interests. 1) Capturing and extracting information to aid in elucidating genetic etiology of behavioral health traits and psychiatric diagnoses. 2) Utilizing genetics/genomics to understand biological mechanism and interventional strategies of psychiatric disorders

Our group is at the intersection of genomics, biomedical informatics and psychiatry and has two broad research interests. 1) Capturing and extracting information to aid in elucidating genetic etiology of behavioral health traits and psychiatric diagnoses. 2) Utilizing genetics/genomics to understand biological mechanism and interventional strategies of psychiatric disorders

Keywords: genomics , behavioral health , computational biology , electronic health records , transcriptomics

Research Area: Computational and Systems Biology , Genomics , Developmental Neuroscience