Genetic Epidemiology is defined by an amalgam of methods garnered from traditional epidemiology, population and family-based epidemiology, from statistics, and importantly, from bioinformatics. Together, specific aspects of these disciplines are applied to the study of genes and environment, and of gene environment interactions. Both quantitative and qualitative traits may be of interest. Genetic epidemiology uses unique case-control, family, and population-based designs, and genotyping from multiple sources. Our goal has been to learn about genetic susceptibility to disease and genetic determinants of therapeutic responsiveness. A full series in genetic epidemiology is offered in The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Information about the faculty conducting research in genetic epidemiology and their projects is provided below.

Diane Becker, ScD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Management
Principal Investigator: GeneSTAR
Director, Center for Health Promotion
Research Interests: Molecular, genetic, and behavioral epidemiology of cardiovascular disease; family studies of premature cardiovascular disease; platelet dysfunction
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Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS, FACP
Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
Samsung Professor of Medicine
Joint Appointments in Nursing & Oncology
Associate Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, Hopkins-UMB Diabetes Prevention & Control Core
Executive Medical Director, Business Development & Strategic Alliances
Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Principal Investigator, Look AHEAD Study
Principal Investigator, NIDDK grant (K24) for Patient-Oriented Research in Type 2 Diabetes
Research Interests: Epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus and related conditions
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Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, MHS
Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
Director, George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention (GWCC)
Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Epidemiologic and statistical methods in cardiovascular research
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M. Daniele Fallin, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology (CADDE)
Joint appointment in Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Faculty, Center for Global Health
Research interests: Genetic epidemiological methods, epigenetics
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Liliana Florea, PhD, MSc
Member, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research interests: Algorithms and tools for cDNA and genomic sequence alignment, comparative and evolutionary genomics, gene annotation, alternative splicing and its regulation, miRNA genomics and peptide-based vaccine design 
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Brian Kral, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Research Interests: Genetics and clinical research in cardiovascular disease
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Nisa Maruthur, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, GIM Fellowship Program
Core Faculty, Welch Center for prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Research interests: Individualized medicine for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, pharmacogenomics of type 2 diabetes, comparative effectiveness
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Michaela Pertea, PhD, MS, MSE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Member, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine   
Research interests: Computational gene finding, splice site prediction, sequence motif finding
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Rehan Qayyum, MD, MHS 
Assistant Professor of Medicine/GIM
Research Interests: Platelet biology, hemostasis and thrombosis, pharmacogenomics of anti-platelet agents, genetic epidemiology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis
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Steven Salzberg, PhD, MS
Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
Member, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Joint appointment, Computer Science
Research interests: Genomics, bioinformatics, gene finding, genome assembly, genome technology
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Dhananjay Vaidya, MD, PhD 
Associate Professor of Medicine/GIM
Research Interests: Genetics and epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis insulin resistance and related conditions
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J. Hunter Young, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Molecular and genetic epidemiology, physical anthropology, pathophysiology of hypertension in relation to obesity and diabetes
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