Welcome to CDHG
The Center for Developmental and Health Genetics (CDHG) had its origins within the Institute for the Study of Human Development in what was then the College of Human Development. In the organizational restructuring accompanying the establishment of the College of Health and Human Development, this program was constituted a Center in 1988.
The major objectives of CDHG are:
The major objectives of CDHG are:
- to apply the methods of quantitative genetics to traits of central importance to human development and health across the entire lifespan, using both human subjects and animal models
- to develop a research program aimed at bridging the conceptual and methodological gap betweenquantitative genetics and molecular genetics
- to exploit the vast knowledge of the genetics of Drosophila (fruit fly) to add a powerful addition to our considerable resources of human and mouse subjects in the analysis of complex developmental systems.
