Recruitment of Faculty for Genetic Aging Research

描述（由申请人提供）：人类遗传研究在理解许多人类遗传特征的潜在遗传结构方面取得了显着进展。现在已经确定了数千种孟德尔性状的潜在遗传病变，并且使用全基因组关联研究（GWAS）描述了数百种与常见多态性的关联。在这些成功中，有许多衰老的特征，包括痴呆、帕金森病、黄斑变性和成功衰老，仅举几例。然而，这些研究才刚刚开始详细描述衰老特征的遗传结构，因为即使对痴呆症进行了深入研究，也只描述了一小部分风险结构。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human genetic research has made remarkable progress in understanding the underlying genetic architecture of numerous human genetic traits. The underlying genetic lesions for thousands of Mendelian traits have now been identified and hundreds of associations with common polymorphisms have now been described using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Among these successes are numerous traits of aging, including dementia, Parkinson disease, macular degeneration, and successful aging, to name just a few. However, these studies have just begun the job of describing in detail the genetic architecture of traits of aging, as even for the intensively studied dementias, only a minority of the risk architecture has been described. The goal of this P30 Core application is to support the recruitment and start-up activities of a new tenure track faculty member in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The focus of this individual's research will be the neurogenetics of aging, with a further focus on human genetics. They will have an appointment within the Division of Human Genomics (DHG), Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics in the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University. They will also be appointed as an Investigator within the Center for Human Genetics Research (CHGR), the primary location for their research activities. They will have access to superlative core resources, collaborations and mentoring. Our goal is to identify and recruit an outstanding candidate who will complement the current expertise within the DHG and the CHGR and perform ground-breaking research in the neurogenetics of aging. To achieve this goal, we specifically propose to recruit internationally to identify a large pool of qualified applicants, select the best possible candidate, provide start-up resources and a collaborative atmosphere, and provide exemplary mentoring to guide this individual through their first years as a faculty member.