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R. Arlen Price

Professor of Psychiatry
Department: Psychiatry

Contact information
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Translational Research Laboratories
125 South 31st Street
Room 2201
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2158982014
Fax: 2155732041
Education
B.S. ( Psychology)
Georgia State University, 1972.
M.A. ( Social Psychology)
Georgia State University, 1974.
M.A. (Biological Psychology)
University of Colorado, Boulder , 1977.
Ph.D. (Psychology: Behavioral Genetics)
University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980.
Postdoc (Population Genetics)
Stanford University, 1982.
Postdoc (Human Genetics)
Yale University, 1984.
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Description of Research Expertise

Genetics of Complex Traits, Genetics of Obesity, Behavioral Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology

Selected Publications

Dong C., Li WD., Li D., Price RA.: Extreme obesity is associated with attempted suicides: results from a family study. International Journal of Obesity 30(2): 388-90, Feb 2006.

Dong C., Li WD., Geller F., Lei L., Li D., Gorlova OY., Hebebrand J., Amos CI., Nicholls RD., Price RA.: Possible genomic imprinting of three human obesity-related genetic loci. American Journal of Human Genetics 76(3): 427-37, Mar 2005.

Dong C., Li WD., Li D., Price RA.: Interaction between obesity-susceptibility loci in chromosome regions 2p25-p24 and 13q13-q21. European Journal of Human Genetics 13(1): 102-8, Jan 2005.

Malhotra A., Coon H., Feitosa MF., Li WD., North KE., Price RA., Bouchard C., Hunt SC., Wolford JK., The American Diabetes Association GENNID Study Group.: Meta-analysis of genome-wide linkage studies for quantitative lipid traits in African Americans. Human Molecular Genetics 14(24): 3955-62, Dec 15 2005.

Dong C., Sanchez LE., Price RA.: Relationship of obesity to depression: a family-based study. International Journal of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 28(6): 790-5, Jun 2004.

Li, W-D, Dong, C, Li, D, Zhao, H, Price, RA.: An obesity related locus in chromosome region 12q22-23. Diabetes 53: 812-820, 2004.

Dong, C, Wang, S, Li, W-D, Li, D, Zhao, H, Price, RA. : Interacting genetic loci on chromosomes 20 and 10 influence extreme human obesity. American Journal of Human Genetics 72: 115-124, 2003.

Wermter AK., Reichwald K., Buch T., Geller F., Platzer C., Huse K., Hess C., Remschmidt H., Gudermann T., Preibisch G., Siegfried W., Goldschmidt HP., Li WD., Price RA., Biebermann H., Krude H., Vollmert C., Wichmann HE., Illig T., Sorensen TI., Astrup A., Larsen LH., Pedersen O., Eberle D., Clement K., Blundell J., Wabitsch M., Schafer H., Platzer M., Hinney A., Hebebrand J.: Mutation analysis of the MCHR1 gene in human obesity. European Journal of Endocrinology 152(6): 851-62, Jun 2005.

Li WD., Dong C., Li D., Garrigan C., Price RA.: A quantitative trait locus influencing fasting plasma glucose in chromosome region 18q22-23. Diabetes 53(9): 2487-91, Sep 2004.

Li, W-D, Li, D, Wang, S, Zhang, S, Zhao, H, Price, RA. : Linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping of genes influencing human obesity in chromosome region 7q22.1–7q35. Diabetes 52: 1557-1561, 2003.

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