Matthew W. State, MD, PhD

Donald J. Cohen Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Genetics and of Psychiatry; Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics; Deputy Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry


Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Yale Medical Group

Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program

Collaborators

Kavli Foundation

Child Study Center: NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Genetics

Psychiatry

Research Interests

Genetic mechanisms; neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood


Clinical Interests

Child and adolescent psychiatry; genetic syndromes; Tourette's syndrome; Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder (OCD); developmental delay; mental retardation


Education

  • M.D., Stanford University, 1991
  • Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, 2001

Selected Publication

  • Sanders SJ, Ercan-Sencicek AG, Hus V, Luo R, Murtha MT, Moreno-De-Luca D, Chu SH, Moreau MP, Gupta AR, Thomson SA, Mason CE, Bilguvar K, Celestino-Soper PB, Choi M, Crawford EL, Davis L, Davis Wright NR, Dhodapkar RM, Dicola M, Dilullo NM, Fernandez TV, Fielding-Singh V, Fishman DO, Frahm S, Garagaloyan R, Goh GS, Kammela S, Klei L, Lowe JK, Lund SC, McGrew AD, Meyer KA, Moffat WJ, Murdoch JD, O'Roak BJ, Ober GT, Pottenger RS, Raubeson MJ, Song Y, Wang Q, Yaspan BL, Yu TW, Yurkiewicz IR, Beaudet AL, Cantor RM, Curland M, Grice DE, Günel M, Lifton RP, Mane SM, Martin DM, Shaw CA, Sheldon M, Tischfield JA, Walsh CA, Morrow EM, Ledbetter DH, Fombonne E, Lord C, Martin CL, Brooks AI, Sutcliffe JS, Cook EH Jr, Geschwind D, Roeder K, Devlin B, State MW. Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism, Neuron. 2011 Jun 9;70(5):863-85.