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Eric Johnson

Senior Research Scientist

Eric Johnson, PhD, has more than 10 years' experience in the epidemiologic and behavioral genetic study of substance use and mental health. Before joining RTI in January 2005, he was an associate scientist at the Henry Ford Health Sciences Center and associate professor of psychiatry at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He is currently the principal investigator for the Epidemiology of Insomnia and Mental Illness in Adolescence project and co-investigator for the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Nicotine Dependence project. His experience and interest include substance use, psychiatric, and sleep disorder epidemiology; the interaction of environmental and genetic influences on these disorders; and the application of epidemiology to intervention/prevention programs. Dr. Johnson was the lead analyst and writer for the National Sleep Foundation's Sleep in America surveys and is the author of numerous articles on substance use, mental illness, and sleep disorders.

Education

PhD, Sociology, Western Michigan University; MA, Sociology, Western Michigan University; BA, Sociology and Psychology, Olivet Nazarene University.

Latest Publications

Imputation across genotyping arrays for genome-wide association studies: assessment of bias and a correction strategy — Human Genetics
Johnson, E.O., Hancock, D.B., Levy, J.L., Gaddis, N.C., Saccone, N.L., Bierut, L.J., & Page, G.P. (May 2013)
Assessment of genotype imputation performance using 1000 genomes in African American studies — PLoS one
Hancock, D.B., Levy, J.L., Gaddis, N.C., Bierut, L.J., Saccone, N.L., Page, G.P., & Johnson, E.O. (Nov 2012)
CHRNB3 is more strongly associated with FTCD-based nicotine dependence than cigarettes per day: phenotype definition changes GWAS results — Addiction
Rice, J.P., Hartz, S., Agrawal, A., Almasy, L., Bennett, S., Breslau, N., Bucholz, K.K., Doheny, K.F., Edenberg, H.J., Goate, A.M., Hesselbrock, V., Howells, W.B., Johnson, E.O., et al. (Nov 2012)
Comparison of Genotype Imputation Strategies Using 1000 Genomes for African American Studies — Genetic Epidemiology
Hancock, D.B., Levy, J.L., Gaddis, N.C., Bierut, L.J., Saccone, N.L., Page, G.P., & Johnson, E.O. (Nov 2012)
Increased Genetic Vulnerability to Smoking at CHRNA5 in Early-Onset Smokers — Archives of General Psychiatry
Hartz, S.M., Short, S.E., Saccone, N.L., Culverhouse, R., Chen, L.S., Schwantes-An, T.H., Coon, H., Han, Y.H., Stephens, S.H., Sun, J.Z., Chen, X.N., Ducci, F., Dueker, N., Franceschini, N., Frank, J., Geller, F., Guobjartsson, D., Hansel, N.N., Jiang, C.H., Keskitalo-Vuokko, K., Liu, Z., Lyytikainen, L.P., Michel, M., Rawal, R., Hum, S., Rosenberger, A., Scheet, P., Shaffer, J.R., Teumer, A., Thompson, J.R., Vink, J.M., Vogelzangs, N., Wenzlaff, A.S., Wheeler, W., Xiao, X.J., Yang, B.Z., Aggen, S.H., Balmforth, A.J., Baumeister, S.E., Beaty, T., Bennett, S., Bergen, A.W., Boyd, H.A., Broms, U., Campbell, H., Chatterjee, N., Chen, J.C., Cheng, Y.C., Cichon, S., Couper, D., Cucca, F., Dick, D.M., Foroud, T., Furberg, H., Giegling, I., Gu, F.Y., Hall, A.S., Hallfors, J., Han, S.Z., Hartmann, A.M., Hayward, C., Heikkila, K., Hewitt, J.K., Hottenga, J.J., Jensen, M.K., Jousilahti, P., Kaakinen, M., Kittner, S.J., Konte, B., Korhonen, T., Landi, M.T., Laatikainen, T., Leppert, M., Levy, S.M., Mathias, R.A., Mcneil, D.W., Medland, S.E., Montgomery, G.W., Muley, T., Murray, T., Nauck, M., North, K., Pergadia, M., Polasek, O., Ramos, E.M., Ripatti, S., Risch, A., Ruczinski, I., Rudan, I., Salomaa, V., Schlessinger, D., Styrkarsdottir, U., Terracciano, A., Uda, M., Willemsen, G., Wu, X.F., Abecasis, G., Barnes, K., Bickeboller, H., Boerwinkle, E., Boomsma, D.I., Caporaso, N., Duan, J.B., Edenberg, H.J., Francks, C., Gejman, P.V., Gelernter, J., Grabe, H.J., Hops, H., Jarvelin, M.R., Viikari, J., Kahonen, M., Kendler, K.S., Lehtimaki, T., Levinson, D.F., Marazita, M.L., Marchini, J., Melbye, M., Mitchell, B.D., Murray, J.C., Nothen, M.M., Penninx, B.W., Raitakari, O., Rietschel, M., Rujescu, D., Samani, N.J., Sanders, A.R., Schwartz, A.G., Shete, S., Shi, J.X., Spitz, M., Stefansson, K., Swan, G.E., Thorgeirsson, T., Volzke, H., Wei, Q.Y., Wichmann, H.E., Amos, C.I., Breslau, N., Cannon, D.S., Ehringer, M., Grucza, R., Hatsukami, D., Heath, A., Johnson, E.O., et al. (Aug 2012)
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