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Faculty Hong Xian, PhD Dr. Xian received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Washington University and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Statistical Genetics and Psychiatric Epidemiology in Washington University's Department of Psychiatry. He serves as a Health Science Specialist in St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center where he has been a co-investigator on numerous projects in clinical epidemiology and outcomes research in Health Services Research and Development. Dr. Xian has been the PI of three funded projects studying the impact of nicotine withdrawal and dependence on failed smoking cessation, the risk factors to milestones in smoking, and gene-environment interactions that exacerbate risk for adolescent and young adult smoking. His research interests include genetic and environmental risk factors in the etiology of substance-use disorders and affective disorders, formulation of models and development of methods in the studies of genetic and environmental variations in risk for psychiatric disorders, methods of genetic studies of twins and families, methods in epidemiology for the studies of physical and psychiatric disorders, and linkage and association methods in genetic dissection of etiologically complex phenotypes.
Division of General Medical Sciences
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