Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era

Robert Plomin, PhD, is MRC Research Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, where he is deputy director of the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre. He has worked at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado and at Pennsylvania State University. He has been president of the Behavior Genetics Association. John C. DeFries, PhD, is professor of psychology and director, Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder. He founded the journal Behavior Genetics with Steven G. Vandenberg in 1970. He has been president of the Behavior Genetics Association and received the association's Theodosius Dobzhansky Award for Outstanding Research in 1992. He became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Section J, Psychology) in 1994. Ian W. Craig, PhD, is professor of molecular genetics and head of the molecular genetics group of the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He is involved in several projects aimed at finding genes for complex behavioral dimensions and disorders. He is especially interested in candidate gene strategies that integrate entire gene systems. He is currently a council member of the Human Genome Organization. Peter McGuffin, MD, PhD, is director of the Medical Research Council's Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. His interests are in gene-environment interplay and molecular genetic approaches to the study of both normal and abnormal behaviors. He is past president of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and is a founder fellow of Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences.Plomin, Robert is the author of 'Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era' with ISBN 9781557989260 and ISBN 1557989265.