Douglas F. Levinson, M.D.

Clinical Focus

• Psychiatry

Professional Education

Web Site Links

• Program website

Research Interests

Dr. Levinson directs the Program on the Genetics of Brain Function in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The program investigates the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia and major depressive disorder), using genetic association, linkage and resequencing methodologies. In collaboration with Dr. Alice Whittemore, we are also actively engaged in statistical methods testing and development for genetic research.

Publications

• Significance levels for studies with correlated test statistics. Shi J, Levinson DF, Whittemore AS. Biostatistics. 2008; 9 (3): 458-66
• Genetics of recurrent early-onset major depression (GenRED): significant linkage on chromosome 15q25-q26 after fine mapping with single nucleotide polymorphism markers. Levinson DF, Evgrafov OV, Knowles JA, Potash JB, Weissman MM, Scheftner WA, Depaulo JR, Crowe RR, Murphy-Eberenz K, Marta DH, McInnis MG, Adams P, Gladis M, Miller EB, Thomas J, Holmans P. Am J Psychiatry. 2007; 164 (2): 259-64
• Genetics of recurrent early-onset major depression (GenRED): final genome scan report. Holmans P, Weissman MM, Zubenko GS, Scheftner WA, Crowe RR, Depaulo JR, Knowles JA, Zubenko WN, Murphy-Eberenz K, Marta DH, Boutelle S, McInnis MG, Adams P, Gladis M, Steele J, Miller EB, Potash JB, Mackinnon DF, Levinson DF. Am J Psychiatry. 2007; 164 (2): 248-58
• Bootstrap classification and point-based feature selection from age-staged mouse cerebellum tissues of matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectra using a fuzzy rule-building expert system. Harrington PB, Laurent C, Levinson DF, Levitt P, Markey SP. Anal Chim Acta. 2007; 599 (2): 219-31
• QuickSNP: an automated web server for selection of tagSNPs. Grover D, Woodfield AS, Verma R, Zandi PP, Levinson DF, Potash JB. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007; 35 (Web Server issue): W115-20