Current Research


The Center for Human Genetics is involved in research projects for:

  • Achromatopsia
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Autism
  • Arthritis
  • Beta-Thalassemia
  • Branchio-Oculo-Facial syndrome
  • Epidemiology of neural tube and other congenital malformations
  • Genotyping by Mass Spectrometry
  • Hypertension and Hypotension genes
  • Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction genes
  • Kabuki syndrome
  • LADD syndrome
  • Nonsyndromic deafness
  • Presbycusis
  • Sickle Cell disease
  • Waardenberg syndrome

Members of the Center for Human Genetics Research Group:

  • Clinton Baldwin, Ph.D.
  • Ying Zou , Ph.D.
  • Aubrey Milunsky, M.D., D.Sc.
  • Jeff Milunsky, M.D., F.A.C.M.G.
  • Zhenyuan Wang, Ph.D.
  • Herman E. Wyandt, Ph.D.

Primary teaching affiliate
of BU School of Medicine