Nadav Ahituv, PhD
The Ahituv lab is focused on understanding the role of regulatory sequences in human biology and disease. Through a combination of comparative genomic strategies, biochemical assays, regulatory element analysis, human patient samples, mouse and fish genetic engineering technologies, and massively parallel reporter assays they are working to elucidate mechanisms whereby genetic variation within these sequences lead to changes in human phenotypes.
Interests: Human genetics, genomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, noncoding DNA, enhancers, limb malformations, obesity, epilepsy, autism, scoliosis, mouse models, zebrafish, pharmacogenomics