Jordan Smoller

{{Short description|American psychiatric geneticist}}

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| birth_name = Jordan Wassertheil Smoller

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| nationality = American

| fields = Psychiatric genetics

| workplaces = Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Massachusetts General Hospital

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| education = Harvard University
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health

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| thesis_title = Genetic determinants of panic and phobic anxiety disorders

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| thesis_year = 2001

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Jordan Wassertheil Smoller (born October 13, 1961){{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007184843.html |title=Smoller, Jordan W., 1961- |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=2019-05-08}} is an American psychiatric geneticist. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also serves as Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience and Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. His other positions include being an associate member of the Broad Institute, vice president of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics,{{Cite web |url=https://cgm.massgeneral.org/faculty/jordan-w-smoller/ |title=Jordan W. Smoller |website=Center for Genomic Medicine |publisher=Massachusetts General Hospital|language=en-US |access-date=2019-05-08}} and co-chair of the Cross Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.{{cite web |title=Workgroup Chairs |url=https://www.med.unc.edu/pgc/about-us/people/workgroup-chairs/#cnv |website=Psychiatric Genomics Consortium}} His laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, a division of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, aims to determine the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders in both children and adults.{{Cite web |url=https://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1510 |title=Smoller Laboratory |website=Massachusetts General Hospital |access-date=2019-05-08}} In 2013, he was the lead author of a study examining genetic loci associated with an increased risk of five psychiatric disorders.{{Cite journal |date=April 2013 |title=Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis |journal=The Lancet |language=en |volume=381 |issue=9875 |pages=1371–1379 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62129-1 |pmc=3714010 |pmid=23453885|author1=Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-points-to-shared-biology-between-5-psychiatric-disorders/ |title=Study points to "shared biology" between 5 psychiatric disorders |date=2013-02-28 |work=CBS News |access-date=2019-05-08 |language=en }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/health/study-finds-genetic-risk-factors-shared-by-5-psychiatric-disorders.html |title=Study Finds Genetic Risk Factors Shared by 5 Psychiatric Disorders |last=Kolata |first=Gina |date=2013-02-28 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-05-08 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |author-link=Gina Kolata}} Smoller is the son of Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller.{{Cite web |url=http://www.einstein.yu.edu/features/stories/936/sylvia-wassertheil-smoller-celebrating-an-illustrious-career/ |title=Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller: Celebrating an Illustrious Career |website=Albert Einstein College of Medicine |access-date=2019-05-10 |archive-date=2019-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417235723/http://www.einstein.yu.edu/features/stories/936/sylvia-wassertheil-smoller-celebrating-an-illustrious-career/ |url-status=dead }}