Andrew Grotzinger
IBG and Psychology and Neuroscience assistant professor Andrew Grotzinger is lead author on a Nature paper looking at the commonality in genetics of psychiatric disorders. The study covers 14 disorders with over 1 million subjects, and finds that the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders comes from 238 pleiotropic loci. The disorders show a high level of polygenic overlap, and very few disorder specific loci.
Professor Andrew Grotzinger won the Fuller and Scott Award for outstanding early career contributions to the field of behavior genetics. Andrew is one of the originators of what is debatably the most important methodological innovation in behavioral