Shaun M. Purcell is a British genetic epidemiologist and statistical geneticist.

Shaun Purcell
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
King's College London
Known forPLINK
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical genetics
InstitutionsBrigham and Women's Hospital
ThesisSample selection and complex effects in quantitative trait loci analysis (2003)
Doctoral advisorPak Sham
David Fulker

He is a senior associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and its Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. He is also a faculty member at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Psychiatry.[1]

Having studied psychology and statistics at Oxford University, Purcell overcame the death of his supervisor David Fulker one year into a behavioural genetics programme at the Institute of Psychiatry to complete his Ph.D. under Pak Sham. He developed the PLINK genetics software during postdoctoral work with Mark Daly at the Whitehead Institute.[2] He is also known for his research on the genetic bases of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder,[3][4] largely undertaken during faculty appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mount Sinai in Manhattan.

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  1. ^ "Shaun Purcell". Broad Institute. 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  2. ^ Purcell, Shaun. "About". Purcell lab @ BWH, Boston. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  3. ^ Allen, Rebecca (2017-07-17). "Weighing the Benefits of Genetic Information in Clinical Psychiatry". Psychiatric Times: 2. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  4. ^ DeNoon, Daniel J. (2009-07-01). "Genetic Pattern Found in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder". WebMD. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
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