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Biosketch:
Dr. Beaudet received his M.D. degree from Yale, did pediatric residency training at Johns Hopkins, and was a research associate at the National Institutes of Health before joining Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in 1971 where he has remained to the present. Dr. Beaudet has made diverse contributions in the field of mammalian genetics including discovery of uniparental disomy in humans and publishing over 250 original research articles. He has argued for the importance of epigenetics in human disease since 2002 (PMID: 12394355) and proposed a mixed epigenetic and genetic and mixed de novo and inherited model for oligogenic inheritance in autism (PMID: 15389703). In 2004, Beaudet and a BCM team of investigators were the first in the US to introduce array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) into the clinical lab, and they have gone on to play a leadership role in the transformative impact of this technology on clinical genetics. His current work is focused on the role of genomic copy number abnormalities and epigenetic changes in neurobehavioral disabilities, and especially on the importance of the CHRNA7 gene in intellectual disability, autism, and schizophrenia.
Dr. Beaudet is well-known as one of the editors of the Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease textbook for the 6th through 8th editions and now the electronic edition, and he has served on many editorial boards and national review panels. He was President of the American Society of Human Genetics in 1998 and is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Beaudet is currently the Henry and Emma Meyer Distinguished Service Professor and Chair in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. |
