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Molly A Hall, Ph.D

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Research Assistant Professor of Genetics
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Department: Genetics
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13 Education:
21 7 BS 1e (Human Development) c
2b Cornell University, 2005.
21 7 MS 25 (Neuroscience & Education) c
2c Columbia University, 2011.
21 9 Ph.D 2d (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) c
37 Pennsylvania State University , 2015.
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Description of Research Expertise

1f Human Genetics
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25 Gene-Environment Interactions
17 Complex Disease
29 Childhood Maltreatment and Trauma
23 Multi-Omic Data Integration
26 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
20 Autism Spectrum Disorder
30 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
25 Adverse Childhood Experiences
1b Alzheimer's Disease
13 Metabolomics
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Selected Publications

dc Garao Rico AL, Palmiero N, Ritchie MD, Hall MA.: Integrating exposomic analysis of lipid phenotypes: Leveraging GE.db in environment by environment interaction studies. 4d (accepted). Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 2025.

c8 Freda PJ, Ghosh A, Bhandary P, Matsumoto N, Chitre AS, Zhou J, Hall MA: A novel genotype encoding strategy for modeling deviations from additivity in 5f complex trait association studies. BioData Mining, 17(1): 41, Oct 2024.

f7 González Zarzar T, Palmiero N, Kim D, Shen L, Hall MA. : Sex-specific associations between phenotypes and environmental exposures. Scientific Reports, 14:. 14: 21453, 2024.

153 Passero K, Noll JG, Selin C, Hall MA: Longitudinal method comparison: Modeling polygenic risk for posttraumatic stress disorder over time in individuals of African and European ancestry. Frontiers in Genetics, *Statistical Methodology special issue 15(120377), 2024.

12a Lee B, Wang J, Hall MA, Kim D, Stites SD, Shen L. : Sex modifies predictive effects of imaging and CSF biomarkers on cognitive and functional outcomes: A study of Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging 133: 67-77, 2024.

14e Qian F, Nettleford SK, Zhou J, Arner BE, Hall MA, Sharma A, Annageldiyev C, Rossi RM, Tukaramrao DB, Sarkar D, Hegde S, Gandhi UH, Finch ER, Goodfield L, Quickel MD, Claxton DF, Paulson RF, Prabhu SK: Activation of GRP44 decreases severity of myeloid leukemia initiating stem cells. 38 Cell Reports 42 : 112794, 2023.

15b Aguilar MA, Ebanks S, Markus H, Lewis MM, Midya V, Vrana, Huang X, Hall MA*, Kawasawa YI* : Neuronally enriched microvesicle RNAs are differentially expressed in the serums of Parkinson’s patients. 12:. Front. Neurosci 12: 1145923, 2023 Notes: *Co-Corresponding Authors.

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