Human Genetics Center

Faculty

Boerwinkle, Eric , PhD
Professor and Director, Division of Epidemiology and Kozmetsky Family Chair in Human Genetics

Research interests: Human genetics; bioinformatics; DNA variation; coronary heart disease; hypertension

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E447
Email: eric.boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu
Eric  Boerwinkle, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9816

Bressler, Jan, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Disease control, epidemiology, molecular genetics, genetic epidemiology

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E503
Email: jan.bressler@uth.tmc.edu
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Phone: (713) 500-9919

Daiger, Stephen P., PhD
Thomas Stull Matney, PhD Professor in Environmental and Genetics Sciences

Research interests: Human molecular genetics; human population genetics; medical genetics; human gene cloning; linkage mapping; retinitis pigmentosa; macular degeneration; inherited retinal diseases in humans; mutation detection; retinal disease genes RP1 and IMPDH1.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W522
Email: stephen.p.daiger@uth.tmc.edu
Stephen P. Daiger, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9829

Fu, Yun-Xin , PhD
Betty Wheless Trotter Professor

Research interests: Biostatistics; bioinformatics; molecular evolution; population genetics and computational biology

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E541
Email: yunxin.fu@uth.tmc.edu
Yun-Xin  Fu, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9813

Hallman, D. Michael, PhD
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics

Research interests: Genetic epidemiology of chronic disease, especially atherosclerotic disease and diabetes; genetic analysis of longitudinal data.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E431
Email: d.michael.hallman@uth.tmc.edu
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Phone: (713) 500-9893

Hanis, Craig L., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Genetic epidemiology; genetics of type 2 diabetes and its complications; genomic approaches to identifying genes for common diseases.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E423
Email: craig.l.hanis@uth.tmc.edu
Craig L. Hanis, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9807

Hewett-Emmett, David , PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Molecular evolution; human genetic variation; gene families.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E517
Email: david.hewett-emmett@uth.tmc.edu
David  Hewett-Emmett, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9835

Hixson, James E., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Molecular genetics of common diseases including cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes; SNP discovery and analysis in population-based studies of common diseases; allelic effects on gene expression and protein function related to common diseases and measured risk factors.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W422
Email: james.e.hixson@uth.tmc.edu
James E. Hixson, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9834

Liu, Xiaoming, PhD
Asst Prof of Human Genetics

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E529
Email: xiaoming.liu@uth.tmc.edu
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Phone: (713) 500-9820

Maxwell, Taylor J., PhD
Assistant Professor

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E531
Email: taylor.j.maxwell@uth.tmc.edu
Taylor J. Maxwell, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9896

Morrison, Alanna C., PhD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics

Research interests: Elucidation of genes involved in complex diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke. Identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms influencing inter-individual disease risk, linkage analyses and association studies, and development and application of novel statistical methods to evaluate genetic data

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E419
Email: alanna.c.morrison@uth.tmc.edu
Alanna C. Morrison, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9913

Rodin, Andrei S., PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Genetic epidemiology; computational biology; bioinformatics; data mining; artificial intelligence; machine learning; molecular evolution and phylogenetics

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E523
Email: andrei.s.rodin@uth.tmc.edu
Andrei S. Rodin, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9845

Volcik, Kelly, PhD
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics

Research interests: Human genetics; genetics of common diseases; gene-environment interaction; cardiovascular disease.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E407
Email: kelly.a.volcik@uth.tmc.edu
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Phone: (713) 500-9891

Xiong, Momiao , PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Computational systems biology; functional genomics; bioinformatics; genetic epidemiology; statistical genetics; pharmacogenetics; population genetics

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E439
Email: momiao.xiong@uth.tmc.edu
Momiao  Xiong, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9894