Neil J. Risch, PhD

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Education

California Institute of Technology, BS, 1972, Mathematics
Univ of Illinois at Urbana, MS, 1973, Mathematics
Univ of California, Los Angeles, PhD, 1979, Biomathematics

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Professional Experience

• 1972-1973
  Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, University of Illinois
• 1973-1976
  Medical Statistician, Brentwood-Los Angeles VA Hospital
• 1974-1975
  UCLA Regents Fellowship
• 1975-1978
  NIH Genetics Traineeship, UCLA
• 1979-1982
  Research Scientist, Dept. of Med. Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute
• 1980-1981
  Research Associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons
• 1981-1984
  Asst. Prof. of Public Health (Biostatistics) in Psychiatry, Columbia University
• 1984-1987
  Asst. Prof. of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Genetics, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
• 1987-1992
  Assoc. Prof. of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Genetics, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
• 1992-1994
  Prof. of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Genetics, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
• 1995-2004
  Prof. of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 1997-2004
  Prof. of Statistics (by courtesy), Stanford University
• 2005-present
  Prof. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Lamond Family Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Human Genetics, UCSF

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Honors & Awards

• 1972
  University Fellow, University of Illinois
• 1974
  UCLA Regents Fellow
• 1978
  UCLA University Fellow
• 1987
  NIH Research Career Development Award
• 1987
  American Mental Health Fund Research Award
• 1993
  Honorary Master of Arts Degree, Yale University
• 2004
  Curt Stern Award, Amer Society of Human Genetics
• 2005
  First Interviewee, PLoS Genetics

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Selected Publications

1. Shetty PB, Tang H, Tayo BO, Morrison AC, Hanis CL, Rao DC, Young JH, Fox ER, Boerwinkle E, Cooper RS, Risch NJ, Zhu X. Variants in CXADR and F2RL1 are associated with blood pressure and obesity in African-Americans in regions identified through admixture mapping. J Hypertens. 2012 Oct; 30(10):1970-6.
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2. Thornton T, Tang H, Hoffmann TJ, Ochs-Balcom HM, Caan BJ, Risch N. Estimating kinship in admixed populations. Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Jul 13; 91(1):122-38.
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3. Sebro R, Risch NJ. A brief note on the resemblance between relatives in the presence of population stratification. Heredity (Edinb). 2012 May; 108(5):563-8.
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4. Sebro R, Levy H, Schneck K, Dimmock D, Raby BA, Cannon CL, Broeckel U, Risch NJ. Cystic fibrosis mutations for p.F508del compound heterozygotes predict sweat chloride levels and pancreatic sufficiency. Clin Genet. 2012 Dec; 82(6):546-51.
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5. Sebro R, Lange C, Laird NM, Rogus JJ, Risch NJ. Differentiating population stratification from genotyping error using family data. Ann Hum Genet. 2012 Jan; 76(1):42-52.
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6. Hoffmann TJ, Zhan Y, Kvale MN, Hesselson SE, Gollub J, Iribarren C, Lu Y, Mei G, Purdy MM, Quesenberry C, Rowell S, Shapero MH, Smethurst D, Somkin CP, Van den Eeden SK, Walter L, Webster T, Whitmer RA, Finn A, Schaefer C, Kwok PY, Risch N. Design and coverage of high throughput genotyping arrays optimized for individuals of East Asian, African American, and Latino race/ethnicity using imputation and a novel hybrid SNP selection algorithm. Genomics. 2011 Dec; 98(6):422-30.
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7. Hallmayer J, Cleveland S, Torres A, Phillips J, Cohen B, Torigoe T, Miller J, Fedele A, Collins J, Smith K, Lotspeich L, Croen LA, Ozonoff S, Lajonchere C, Grether JK, Risch N. Genetic heritability and shared environmental factors among twin pairs with autism. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011 Nov; 68(11):1095-102.
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8. Wynshaw-Boris A, Risch N, Motulsky A. Charles Joseph Epstein, M.D., 1933–2011, in memoriam. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Jun 10; 88(6):684-8.
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9. Hoffmann TJ, Kvale MN, Hesselson SE, Zhan Y, Aquino C, Cao Y, Cawley S, Chung E, Connell S, Eshragh J, Ewing M, Gollub J, Henderson M, Hubbell E, Iribarren C, Kaufman J, Lao RZ, Lu Y, Ludwig D, Mathauda GK, McGuire W, Mei G, Miles S, Purdy MM, Quesenberry C, Ranatunga D, Rowell S, Sadler M, Shapero MH, Shen L, Shenoy TR, Smethurst D, Van den Eeden SK, Walter L, Wan E, Wearley R, Webster T, Wen CC, Weng L, Whitmer RA, Williams A, Wong SC, Zau C, Finn A, Schaefer C, Kwok PY, Risch N. Next generation genome-wide association tool: design and coverage of a high-throughput European-optimized SNP array. Genomics. 2011 Aug; 98(2):79-89.
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10. Via M, Gignoux CR, Roth LA, Fejerman L, Galanter J, Choudhry S, Toro-Labrador G, Viera-Vera J, Oleksyk TK, Beckman K, Ziv E, Risch N, Burchard EG, Martínez-Cruzado JC. History shaped the geographic distribution of genomic admixture on the island of Puerto Rico. PLoS One. 2011; 6(1):e16513.
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11. Kornum BR, Kawashima M, Faraco J, Lin L, Rico TJ, Hesselson S, Axtell RC, Kuipers H, Weiner K, Hamacher A, Kassack MU, Han F, Knudsen S, Li J, Dong X, Winkelmann J, Plazzi G, Nevsimalova S, Hong SC, Honda Y, Honda M, Högl B, Ton TG, Montplaisir J, Bourgin P, Kemlink D, Huang YS, Warby S, Einen M, Eshragh JL, Miyagawa T, Desautels A, Ruppert E, Hesla PE, Poli F, Pizza F, Frauscher B, Jeong JH, Lee SP, Strohl KP, Longstreth WT, Kvale M, Dobrovolna M, Ohayon MM, Nepom GT, Wichmann HE, Rouleau GA, Gieger C, Levinson DF, Gejman PV, Meitinger T, Peppard P, Young T, Jennum P, Steinman L, Tokunaga K, Kwok PY, Risch N, Hallmayer J, Mignot E. Common variants in P2RY11 are associated with narcolepsy. Nat Genet. 2011 Jan; 43(1):66-71.
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12. Assimes TL, Hólm H, Kathiresan S, Reilly MP, Thorleifsson G, Voight BF, Erdmann J, Willenborg C, Vaidya D, Xie C, Patterson CC, Morgan TM, Burnett MS, Li M, Hlatky MA, Knowles JW, Thompson JR, Absher D, Iribarren C, Go A, Fortmann SP, Sidney S, Risch N, Tang H, Myers RM, Berger K, Stoll M, Shah SH, Thorgeirsson G, Andersen K, Havulinna AS, Herrera JE, Faraday N, Kim Y, Kral BG, Mathias RA, Ruczinski I, Suktitipat B, Wilson AF, Yanek LR, Becker LC, Linsel-Nitschke P, Lieb W, König IR, Hengstenberg C, Fischer M, Stark K, Reinhard W, Winogradow J, Grassl M, Grosshennig A, Preuss M, Schreiber S, Wichmann HE, Meisinger C, Yee J, Friedlander Y, Do R, Meigs JB, Williams G, Nathan DM, MacRae CA, Qu L, Wilensky RL, Matthai WH, Qasim AN, Hakonarson H, Pichard AD, Kent KM, Satler L, Lindsay JM, Waksman R, Knouff CW, Waterworth DM, Walker MC, Mooser VE, Marrugat J, Lucas G, Subirana I, Sala J, Ramos R, Martinelli N, Olivieri O, Trabetti E, Malerba G, Pignatti PF, Guiducci C, Mirel D, Parkin M, Hirschhorn JN, Asselta R, Duga S, Musunuru K, Daly MJ, Purcell S, Eifert S, Braund PS, Wright BJ, Balmforth AJ, Ball SG. Lack of association between the Trp719Arg polymorphism in kinesin-like protein-6 and coronary artery disease in 19 case-control studies. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Nov 2; 56(19):1552-63.
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13. Sebro R, Hoffman TJ, Lange C, Rogus JJ, Risch NJ. Testing for non-random mating: evidence for ancestry-related assortative mating in the Framingham heart study. Genet Epidemiol. 2010 Nov; 34(7):674-9.
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14. Peralta CA, Li Y, Wassel C, Choudhry S, Palmas W, Seldin MF, Risch N, Siscovick D, Arnett D, Psaty B, Shlipak MG. Differences in albuminuria between Hispanics and whites: an evaluation by genetic ancestry and country of origin: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010 Jun; 3(3):240-7.
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15. Lomelin D, Jorgenson E, Risch N. Human genetic variation recognizes functional elements in noncoding sequence. Genome Res. 2010 Mar; 20(3):311-9.
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16. Zakharia F, Basu A, Absher D, Assimes TL, Go AS, Hlatky MA, Iribarren C, Knowles JW, Li J, Narasimhan B, Sidney S, Southwick A, Myers RM, Quertermous T, Risch N, Tang H. Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans. Genome Biol. 2009; 10(12):R141.
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17. Peralta CA, Risch N, Lin F, Shlipak MG, Reiner A, Ziv E, Tang H, Siscovick D, Bibbins-Domingo K. The Association of African Ancestry and elevated creatinine in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Am J Nephrol. 2010; 31(3):202-8.
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18. Risch N, Choudhry S, Via M, Basu A, Sebro R, Eng C, Beckman K, Thyne S, Chapela R, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Avila PC, Ziv E, Gonzalez Burchard E. Ancestry-related assortative mating in Latino populations. Genome Biol. 2009; 10(11):R132.
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19. Poduri A, Wang Y, Gordon D, Barral-Rodriguez S, Barker-Cummings C, Ulgen A, Chitsazzadeh V, Hill RS, Risch N, Hauser WA, Pedley TA, Walsh CA, Ottman R. Novel susceptibility locus at chromosome 6q16.3-22.31 in a family with GEFS+. Neurology. 2009 Oct 20; 73(16):1264-72.
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20. Risch N, Herrell R, Lehner T, Liang KY, Eaves L, Hoh J, Griem A, Kovacs M, Ott J, Merikangas KR. Interaction between the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR), stressful life events, and risk of depression: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2009 Jun 17; 301(23):2462-71.
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