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Main Office Address
Meyer 4-132
Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe St.
Baltimore, MD 21287-5371
Phone: 410-955-1195
Fax: 410-614-1530
E-mail: willour@jhmi.edu
Education
1992 | B.S. | University Of Michigan |
1998 | Ph.D. | Stanford University |
1996 | M.D. | Universit of Geneva Medical School |
1997-2001 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Johns Hopkins University |
Professional Interests
I am primarily interested in identifying and characterizing genes that contribute to the development of obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder and in identifying and characterizing genes that modify the Down Syndrome phenotype.
Click here for a Hopkins Brain Wise Newsletter article about Dr. Willour's work
Selected Publications
Zandi PP, Willour VL, Huo Y, Chellis J, Potash JB, MacKinnon DF, Simpson SG, McMahon FJ, Gershon E, Reich T, Foroud T, Nurnberger J Jr, DePaulo JR Jr, and McInnis MG. 2003. Genome Scan of a Second Wave of NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Pedigrees: Chromosomes 2, 11, 13, 14, and X. Am J Med Genet 119B(1):69-76.
Potash JB, Zandi PP, Willour VL, Lan T-H, Huo Y, Avramopoulos D, Shugart YY, MacKinnon DF, Simpson SG, McMahon FJ, DePaulo JR Jr., and McInnis MG. 2003. Suggestive Linkage to Chromosomal Regions 13q31 and 22q12 in Families With Psychotic Bipolar Disorder. Am J Psychiatry 160(4):680-686.
McInnis MG, Lan T-H, Willour VL, McMahon FJ, Simpson SG, Addington AM, MacKinnon DF, Potash JB, Mahoney AT, Chellis J, Huo Y, Swift-Scanlan T, Chen H, Koskela R, Stine OC, Jamison KR, Holmans P, Folstein SE, Ranade K, Friddle C, Botstein D, Marr T, Beaty TH, Zandi P, and DePaulo JR. 2003. Genome-wide scan of bipolar disorder in 65 pedigrees: supportive evidence for linkage at 8q24, 18q22, 4q32, 2p12, and 13q12. Mol Psychiatry 8(3):288-298.
Willour VL, Zandi PP, Huo Y, Diggs TL, Chellis JL, MacKinnon DF, Simpson SG,McMahon FJ, Potash JB, Gershon ES, Reich T, Foroud T, Nurnberger JI Jr,DePaulo JR Jr, and McInnis MG. 2003. Genome Scan of the Fifty-Six Bipolar Pedigrees from the NIMH Genetics Initiative Replication Sample: Chromosomes 4, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, and 21. Am J Med Genet 121B(1):21-27.
Avramopoulos D*, Willour VL*, Zandi PP, Huo Y, MacKinnon DF, Potash JB, DePaulo JR Jr, and McInnis MG. Linkage of Bipolar Affective Disorder on chromosome 8q24: Follow-up and parametric analysis. Mol Psychiatry, in press. *Equal contribution
