====Director====
* [[Suzanne-Leal-PhD|Suzanne M. Leal, PhD]]
===Research Interests===
* Whole-genome and candidate gene association studies
* Linkage analysis of human diseases
* Development of new methods and software in gene mapping
* Analysis of rare variant sequence data
* Analysis of Copy Number Variants
===Applied Gene Mapping Projects===
* Nonsyndromic Hearing Impairment
* Bipolar Disorder
* Aortic Dissection and Aneurysm
* Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
* Platelet Aggregation
* Prostate and Breast Cancer
* Pain
* Keloids
==Statistical Genetics Software==