Tiffany Greenwood, Ph.D.


Education/Training


Institution and Location
Degree, if applicable
Year(s)
Field of Study
University of California, San Diego
B.S.
1992-1996
Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D.
1996-2002
Psychiatric Genetics


A. Positions and Employment

2002-present Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

Honors
1991-1992 Early Admission Honors, University of California, San Diego
1992-1995 Provost’s Honors, Muir College, University of California, San Diego
1995-present Golden Key National Honors Society, University of California, San Diego
1996 Caledonian Society, Muir College, University of California, San Diego
1996 Departmental Honors in Biology, University of California, San Diego
1996 Magnum cum laude, Muir College, University of California, San Diego
1996-1998 Markey Fellow, University of California, San Diego
2000 Student Travel Award, VIII World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Paris, France
2003 Student Travel Award, XI World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Quebec City, Canada


B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

Greenwood TA, Alexander M, Keck PE, McElroy S, Sadovnick AD, Remick RA, Kelsoe JR (2001) Evidence for linkage disequilibrium between the dopamine transporter and bipolar disorder. Am J Med Genet (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 105:145-151.
Greenwood TA, Alexander M, Keck PE, McElroy S, Sadovnick AD, Remick RA, Shaw SH, Kelsoe JR (2002) Segmental linkage disequilibrium within the dopamine transporter gene. Mol Psychiatry 7:165-173.
Hawi Z, Lowe N, Kirley A, Gruenhage F, Nothen M, Greenwood T, Kelsoe J, Fitzgerald M, Gill M (2003) Linkage disequilibrium mapping at DAT1, DRD5 and DBH narrows the search for ADHD susceptibility alleles at these loci. Mol Psychiatry 8:299-308.
Greenwood TA, Kelsoe JR (2003) Promoter and intronic variants affect the transcriptional regulation of the human dopamine transporter gene. Genomics 82:511-20.
Schork NJ, Greenwood TA (2004) Inherent bias toward the null hypothesis in conventional multipoint non-parametric linkage analysis. American Journal of Human Genetics 74:306-316.
Greenwood TA, Cadman PE, Stridsberg M, Nguyen S, Taupenot L, Schork NJ, O’Connor DT (2004) Genome-wide linkage analysis of chromogranin B expression in the CEPH pedigrees: implications for exocytotic sympathochromaffin secretion in humans. Phys Genomics 18:119-127.
Greenwood TA, Rana BK, Schork NJ (2004) Human Haplotype block sizes are negatively correlated with recombination rates. Genome Res 14:1358-1361.
Schork NJ, Greenwood TA (2004) Got bias? The authors reply. Am J Hum Genet 75:723-727.