Dr. Neale is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Member in the Medical and Population Genetics program of the Broad Institute. He is also Director of Population Genetics for the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. His expertise centers on the development and application of statistical methodology and tools for analysis of large-scale genetic data. Ben has played a central role in elucidating the genetic architecture of several psychiatric disorders, in particular schizophrenia, ADHD and autism, and his work continues to drive these discoveries through the use of increasingly large data sets and state of the art scalable software.

Highlighted Publications from the lab


Rare Copy Number Variants in NRXN1 and CNTN6 Increase Risk for Tourette Syndrome
June, 2017

Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
August, 2016

Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine
August, 2016

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes
August, 2016

An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits
November, 2015

Partitioning the Heritability of Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Reveals Differences in Genetic Architecture
October, 2013

Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis
April, 2013