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Andrew B. Singleton

Andrew B. Singleton PhD

Genetics
Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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Dr. Andrew Singleton is a human geneticist whose research interests focus on the genetics of neurological disease. Dr. Singleton received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree from the University of Sunderland, UK and his Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK where he studied genetic causes and contributors to dementia. Dr. Singleton performed his postdoctoral training at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, studying the genetic basis of neurological diseases such as dystonia, ataxia, essential tremor, dysautonomia, stroke and Parkinson's disease. In 2001 he joined the NIA as an Investigator within the newly created Laboratory of Neurogenetics. Dr. Singleton's group investigates the genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying simple-Mendelian and complex neurological diseases.
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