biography
| name: |
Cloninger, Claude Robert
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pronunciation:
[kloninjer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1944– )
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| biography:
| Psychiatric researcher and teacher, born in Beaumont, Texas, USA. He became affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, MO (1973), and was appointed head of the department of psychiatry (1989). A specialist in the genetic epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, his areas of interest included personality disorders, schizophrenia, and alcoholism. In the 1990s, he undertook molecular genetic linkage studies of the inheritance of alcoholism. |
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