Faculty Fellows

Research Interests:

The assessment of the contribution of specific candidate genes to complex behaviors such and substance abuse and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Publication Highlights:

1. Hopfer CJ, Lessem JM, Hartman CA, Stallings MC, Cherny SS, Corley RP, Hewitt JK, Krauter KS, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Rhee SH, Smolen A, Young SE, Crowley TJ. (2006). A genome-wide scan for loci influencing adolescent cannabis dependence symptoms: evidence for linkage on chromosomes 3 and 9. Drug and alcohol dependence, 89(1), 34-4. | pubmed abstract |

2.Stallings MC, Corley RP, Dennehey B, Hewitt JK, Krauter KS, Lessem JM, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Rhee SH, Smolen A, Young SE, Crowley TJ. (2005). A genome-wide search for quantitative trait Loci that influence antisocial drug dependence in adolescence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(9), 1042-51. | pubmed abstract |

3.Sakai JT, Lessem JM, Haberstick BC, Hopfer CJ, Smolen A, Ehringer MA, Timberlake D, Hewitt JK.(2007) Case-control and within-family tests for association between 5HTTLPR and conduct problems in a longitudinal adolescent sample. Psychiatr Genet, 17, 207-14. | pubmed abstract |