Shaun Purcell
Shaun M. Purcell is a British genetic epidemiologist and statistical geneticist.He is a senior associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and its Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. He is also a faculty member at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Psychiatry.
Having studied psychology and statistics at Oxford University, Purcell overcame the death of his supervisor David Fulker one year into a behavioural genetics programme at the Institute of Psychiatry to complete his Ph.D. under Pak Sham. He developed the PLINK genetics software during postdoctoral work with Mark Daly at the Whitehead Institute. He is also known for his research on the genetic bases of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, largely undertaken during faculty appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mount Sinai in Manhattan. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Soumya Raychaudhuri, Joshua M Korn, Steven A McCarroll, International Schizophrenia Consortium, David Altshuler, Pamela Sklar, Shaun Purcell, Mark J DalyGet full text
Published 2010-09-01
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2by Gavin Lucas, Carla Lluís-Ganella, Isaac Subirana, Muntaser D Musameh, Juan Ramon Gonzalez, Christopher P Nelson, Mariano Sentí, Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Stephen M Schwartz, David Siscovick, Christopher J O'Donnell, Olle Melander, Veikko Salomaa, Shaun Purcell, David Altshuler, Nilesh J Samani, Sekar Kathiresan, Roberto ElosuaGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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