Merle (Menachem) Fromer, PhD
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Psychiatry
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Research Topics
Bioinformatics, Gene Discovery, Gene Expressions, Genetics, Genomics
Multi-Disciplinary Training Area
Cancer Biology [CAB], Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics (DMT), Neuroscience [NEU]
The current focus of Menachem’s research is in developing computational tools to analyze (exome) sequencing data of large samples of thousands of schizophrenia patients in order to uncover genetic variation, in particular structural variation. His main projects include detecting copy number variation (XHMM software) from exome resequecing data, in addition to sequencing-based phasing of haplotype information. Furthermore, he is studying schizophrenia trios (proband and parents) that are being exome sequenced to discover de novo coding mutations ranging from single-nucleotide variants, insertions/deletions, and copy number variation.  He is also collaborating with a number of researchers on developing novel tools for integrating genetic findings into known biological pathways and other functional data, for example, protein-protein interaction networks and protein family and domain information.

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