Faculty

Debby Tsuang

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Medical Genetics

206-277-1333
dwt1@uw.edu

Education

MD University of Iowa, 1988

Contact

206-277-1333
dwt1@uw.edu

Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System
VAPSHCS (116-6E)
1660 S. Columbian Way
Mail Stop: GRECC-182
Seattle, WA 98108

Research Areas

Research Interests

  • Clinical-neuropathology of dementing disorders
  • Psychosis in dementia genetics
  • Endophenotypes of schizophrenia

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Polygenic risk score penetrance & recurrence risk in familial Alzheimer disease.
(2023 Mar 22)
Ann Clin Transl Neurol
Qiao M, Lee AJ, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Tosto G, Faber K, Goate A, Renton A, Chao M, Boeve B, Cruchaga C, Pericak-Vance M, Haines JL, Rosenberg R, Tsuang D, Sweet RA, Bennett DA, Wilson RS, Foroud T, Mayeux R, Vardarajan BN
Identifying probable dementia in undiagnosed Black and White Americans using machine learning in Veterans Health Administration electronic health records.
(2023 Feb 14)
medRxiv
Shao Y, Todd K, Shutes-David A, Millard SP, Brown K, Thomas A, Chen K, Wilson K, Zeng QT, Tsuang DW
Correction: Valcic et al. Determining Whether Sex and Zygosity Modulates the Association between APOE4 and Psychosis in a Neuropathologically-Confirmed Alzheimer's Disease Cohort. Brain Sci. 2022, 12, 1266.
(2022 Dec 29)
Brain Sci 13(1):
Valcic M, Khoury MA, Kim J, Fornazzari L, Churchill NW, Ismail Z, De Luca V, Tsuang D, Schweizer TA, Munoz DG, Fischer CE
African ancestry GWAS of dementia in a large military cohort identifies significant risk loci.
(2023 Mar)
Mol Psychiatry 28(3): 1293-1302
Sherva R, Zhang R, Sahelijo N, Jun G, Anglin T, Chanfreau C, Cho K, Fonda JR, Gaziano JM, Harrington KM, Ho YL, Kremen WS, Litkowski E, Lynch J, Neale Z, Roussos P, Marra D, Mez J, Miller MW, Salat DH, Tsuang D, Wolf E, Zeng Q, Panizzon MS, Merritt VC, Farrer LA, Hauger RL, Logue MW
Sex Modifies the Associations of APOEɛ4 with Neuropsychiatric Symptom Burden in Both At-Risk and Clinical Cohorts of Alzheimer's Disease.
(2022)
J Alzheimers Dis 90(4): 1571-1588
Dissanayake AS, Tan YB, Bowie CR, Butters MA, Flint AJ, Gallagher D, Golas AC, Herrmann N, Ismail Z, Kennedy JL, Kumar S, Lanctot KL, Mah L, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Rajji TK, Tau M, Maraj A, Churchill NW, Tsuang D, Schweizer TA, Munoz DG, Fischer CE, PACt-MD Study Group
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