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Human Genetics - Call for Papers – Special Issue on ‘Neurogenetics’

Over the past few years, large-scale genetics and genomics studies have been conducted to understand the genes and variants associated with common, complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Recently, large-scale transcriptomics studies have been performed to elucidate the contributions of genes and variants in glia cells and neurons for these neurological diseases. Advances in technologies have led to our understanding of the genes, cell types and cell type specific gene networks in these complex diseases, contributing to progress in therapeutics.

Topics that are of interest include:

  • Genetics or genomic studies in neurological diseases
  • Methods or technologies to dissect cell types involved in neurological diseases
  • Model systems for studying processes in neurological diseases
  • Role of pathogens in neurological diseases
  • Complex cell or gene interactions in neurological diseases

Human Genetics invites contributions of original investigations and studies for this Special Issue. Authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for any inquiries or to discuss their potential submissions.

Timeline:

Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2023
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Guest Editors:

Rigel Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at UMass Chan Medical School. His research explores the ability of using in-vitro systems to model human genetic diseases and phenotypes. Having developed a multiplex pooling method to simultaneously quantify donor cell phenotypes on a large scale, Rigel seeks to expand the scope of human genetic disease discovery and treatment using in-vitro modeling. His current interests is to harness the use of in-vitro population modeling to study Neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Multiple Sclerosis.

Elaine Lim is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology at UMass Chan Medical School. Her research uses induced pluripotent stem cell models combined with computational methods development to identify molecular perturbations due to genetics associated with neurological diseases such as autism and Alzheimer’s Disease.

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