Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

jennifer.yokoyama@ucs.eu

Jennifer Yokoyama obtained her doctorate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics from UCSF in December 2010 with Dr. Steven Hamilton (Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Human Genetics). Her dissertation comprised work within the Canine Behavioral Genetics Project, utilizing purebred dogs as genetic models for studying neuropsychiatric disease.

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Utilizing community-based canine DNA samples, Dr. Yokoyama performed genome-wide surveys for genetic loci underlying the canine anxiety disorder noise phobia, as well as for loci underlying adult-onset deafness in border collies.

Dr. Yokoyama is currently an Assistant Professor at the Memory and Aging Center, where she is beginning a research program in neurogenetics of aging. Specifically, she is interested in the effect genotype can have on brain physiology, behavior and cognition in healthy older adults, and how this is related to increased vulnerability to (or protection from) neurodegenerative processes during aging. She is also particularly interested in understanding these effects in diverse ethnic populations. Dr. Yokoyama's long-term goal is to understand how variation across the entire genome confers risk for particular types of neurodegeneration for purposes of early treatment and therapeutic intervention.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
  • Ph.D. Graduate Division (Pharmaceutical Sci & Pharmacogenomics) University of California, San Francisco 2010

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Publications (153)

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Apolipoprotein E4Genetic Predisposition to DiseasePlaque, AmyloidC9orf72 ProteinReceptors, ImmunologicPolymorphism, Single NucleotideAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAgingGenome-Wide Association StudyFrontotemporal DementiaTauopathiesNeurodegenerative DiseasesAlzheimer DiseaseFrontotemporal Lobar DegenerationAtrophy

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