My work focuses on developing statistical and computational tools for the design of genetic studies, the detection of gene variants influencing complex human traits and the dissection of these effects in the larger context of other genetic and environmental factors. In particular, I currently work on whole genome association studies of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and the development of tools for whole genome studies.
My first degrees were in experimental psychology, from the University of Oxford and University of London (UCL); my PhD was from the SGDP, Institute of Psychiatry, KCL. I am now based at the Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (PNGU) which is part of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). I am also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and its Psychiatric Disease Initiative.
Current lab members and contact details:
Manuel Ferreira (post-doc); Kathe Todd-Brown (research assistant);
Yan Meng (post-doc); Douglas Ruderfer (bioinformatics specialist)
Room 6.254 Simches Building, 185 Cambridge Street Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114 E-mail: shaun AT pngu dot mgh dot harvard dot edu Tel: +1 617 726 7642 Fax: +1 617 726 0830
