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Chunyu Liu, Ph.D.

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Ongoing Project (under construction)

1. Susceptibility Gene Search for Bipolar Disorder (BP or BD)

1) Positional-based Association Studies (chr.13)

2) Candidate Genes Association Study (based on pathways)

3) Mutation Screening & Association Studies of Candidate Genes

2. Informatics

Tools development

1) SNP Information Mining Pipeline (SIMP)

    a) DNannotator - SNP mapping

    b) Frequency Finder - SNP allele frequency data collection (Tu Nguyen)

    c) SNPSequer - SNP flanking sequence extraction

    d) Primer Nerd - SNP FP genotyping assay design

    e) SNP Cutter - SNP PCR-RFLP experiment design

2) Gene Information Mining Pipeline (GIMP)

ConsRegions

3) Mutation Screening Assay design

MutScreener

Genomics study

1) Genomic duplication

2) Gene & regulatory elements identification

3. Functional Genomics

1) G72 transgenic mice, gene expression and behavior study.

2) Identification of gene regulatory elements.

Lab Protocol

Major Instruments