Robert Nicholls, PhD, Research Projects

Robert Nicholls, PhD, works with mouse models and patients to study the phenomenon of genome imprinting and its derangement in human disease. Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes, disorders caused by a complex defect of genomic imprinting on chromosome 15, are among Dr. Nicholl’s areas of focus.

Summaries of his current work are listed below.