Craig Teerlink, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments: Internal Medicine - Research Assistant Professor, Family & Preventive Medicine - Adjunct Assistant Professor

Divisions: Epidemiology, Public Health

Academic Office Information

Craig.Teerlink@hsc.utah.edu

Craig Teerlink, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine. As a research track assistant professor, his research interests include gene discovery in a variety of complex diseases.

Dr. Teerlink’s research has relied heavily on the unique resources that are available at the University of Utah including genealogical and phenotype records contained in the Utah Population Database and genotype/sequence data collected over the last several decades at the Division of Genetic Epidemiology. His research has covered a range of activities contributing to gene discovery including familial aggregation, gene localization, and analysis of sequence data.

Dr. Teerlink received his PhD from the University of Utah where he received graduate training in statistics and biomedical informatics.

Education History

Doctoral Training University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics 		Ph.D.
Graduate Training University of Utah, Department of Mathematics
Statistics 		M.S.
Undergraduate University of Utah, Department of Economics
Economics 		B.S.

Selected Publications

  1. Cannon-Albright LA, Foster NL, Schliep K, Farnham JM, Teerlink CC, Kaddas H, Tschanz J, Corcoran C, Kauwe JSK (2019). Relative risk for Alzheimer disease based on complete family history. Neurology, 92(15), e1745-e1753.
  2. Patel D, Mez J, Vardarajan BN, Staley L, Chung J, Zhang X, Farrell JJ, Rynkiewicz MJ, Cannon-Albright LA, Teerlink CC, Stevens J, Corcoran C, Gonzalez Murcia JD, Lopez OL, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg G, Kauwe JSK, Lunetta KL, Farrer LA, Alzheimers Disease Sequencing Project (2019). Association of Rare Coding Mutations With Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias Among Adults of European Ancestry. JAMA Netw Open, 2(3), e191350.
  3. Cannon-Albright LA, Dintelman S, Maness T, Cerny J, Thomas A, Backus S, Farnham JM, Teerlink CC, Contreras J, Kauwe JSK, Meyer LJ (2018). Population genealogy resource shows evidence of familial clustering for Alzheimer disease. Neurol Genet, 4(4), e249.
  4. Kar SP, Beesley J, Amin Al Olama A, Michailidou K, Tyrer J, Kote-Jarai Z, Lawrenson K, Lindstrom S, Ramus SJ, Thompson DJ, ABCTB Investigators, Kibel AS, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Michael A, Dieffenbach AK, Gentry-Maharaj A, Whittemore AS, Wolk A, Monteiro A, Peixoto A, Kierzek A, Cox A, Rudolph A, Gonzalez-Neira A, Wu AH, Lindblom A, Swerdlow A, AOCS Study Group Australian Cancer Study Ovarian Cancer, APCB BioResource, Ziogas A, Ekici AB, Burwinkel B, Karlan BY, Nordestgaard BG, Blomqvist C, Phelan C, McLean C, Pearce CL, Vachon C, Cybulski C, Slavov C, Stegmaier C, Maier C, Ambrosone CB, Hgdall CK, Teerlink CC, Kang D, Tessier DC, Schaid DJ, Stram DO, Cramer DW, Neal DE, Eccles D, Flesch-Janys D, Edwards DR, Wokozorczyk D, Levine DA, Yannoukakos D, Sawyer EJ, Bandera EV, Poole EM, Goode EL, Khusnutdinova E, Hgdall E, Song F, Bruinsma F, Heitz F, Modugno F, Hamdy FC, Wiklund F, Giles GG, Olsson H, Wildiers H, Ulmer HU, Pandha H, Risch HA, Darabi H, Salvesen HB, Nevanlinna H, Gronberg H, Brenner H, Brauch H, Anton-Culver H, Song H, Lim HY, McNeish I, Campbell I, Vergote I, Gronwald J, Lubiski J, Stanford JL, Bentez J, Doherty JA, Permuth JB, Chang-Claude J, Donovan JL, Dennis J, Schildkraut JM, Schleutker J, Hopper JL, Kupryjanczyk J, Park JY, Figueroa J, Clements JA, Knight JA, Peto J, Cunningham JM, Pow-Sang J, Batra J, Czene K, Lu KH, Herkommer K, Khaw KT, kConFab Investigators, Matsuo K, Muir K, Offitt K, Chen K, Moysich KB, Aittomki K, Odunsi K, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LF, Fitzgerald LM, Cook LS, Cannon-Albright L, Hooning MJ, Pike MC, Bolla MK, Luedeke M, Teixeira MR, Goodman MT, Schmidt MK, Riggan M, Aly M, Rossing MA, Beckmann MW, Moisse M, Sanderson M, Southey MC, Jones M, Lush M, Hildebrandt MA, Hou MF, Schoemaker MJ, Garcia-Closas M, Bogdanova N, Rahman N, NBCS Investigators, Le ND, Orr N, Wentzensen N, Pashayan N, Peterlongo P, Gunel P, Brennan P, Paulo P, Webb PM, Broberg P, Fasching PA, Devilee P, Wang Q, Cai Q, Li Q, Kaneva R, Butzow R, Kopperud RK, Schmutzler RK, Stephenson RA, MacInnis RJ, Hoover RN, Winqvist R, Ness R, Milne RL, Travis RC, Benlloch S, Olson SH, McDonnell SK, Tworoger SS, Maia S, Berndt S, Lee SC, Teo SH, Thibodeau SN, Bojesen SE, Gapstur SM, Kjr SK, Pejovic T, Tammela TL, GENICA Network, PRACTICAL consortium, Drk T, Brning T, Wahlfors T, Key TJ, Edwards TL, Menon U, Hamann U, Mitev V, Kosma VM, Setiawan VW, Kristensen V, Arndt V, Vogel W, Zheng W, Sieh W, Blot WJ, Kluzniak W, Shu XO, Gao YT, Schumacher F, Freedman ML, Berchuck A, Dunning AM, Simard J, Haiman CA, Spurdle A, Sellers TA, Hunter DJ, Henderson BE, Kraft P, Chanock SJ, Couch FJ, Hall P, Gayther SA, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Eeles R, Pharoah PD, Lambrechts D (2016). Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer Association Studies Identify Multiple New Susceptibility Loci Shared by at Least Two Cancer Types. Cancer Discov, 6(9), 1052-67.
  5. Teerlink CC, Leongamornlert D, Dadaev T, Thomas A, Farnham J, Stephenson RA, Riska S, McDonnell SK, Schaid DJ, Catalona WJ, Zheng SL, Cooney KA, Ray AM, Zuhlke KA, Lange EM, Giles GG, Southey MC, Fitzgerald LM, Rinckleb A, Luedeke M, Maier C, Stanford JL, Ostrander EA, Kaikkonen EM, Sipeky C, Tammela T, Schleutker J, Wiley KE, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Mandal D, Laurie C, Laurie C, PRACTICAL consortium, International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics, Thibodeau SN, Eeles RA, Kote-Jarai Z, Cannon-Albright L (2016). Genome-wide association of familial prostate cancer cases identifies evidence for a rare segregating haplotype at 8q24.21. Hum Genet, 135(8), 923-38.
  6. Tashjian RZ, Granger EK, Farnham JM, Cannon-Albright LA, Teerlink CC (2015). Genome-wide association study for rotator cuff tears identifies two significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms. J Shoulder Elbow Surg, 25(2), 174-9.
  7. Albright F, Teerlink C, Werner TL, Cannon-Albright LA (2012). Significant evidence for a heritable contribution to cancer predisposition: a review of cancer familiality by site. BMC Cancer, 12, 138.
  8. Teerlink CC, Thomas A (2010). An application of the latent p value method to assess linkage in asthma pedigrees. Hum Hered, 70(1), 1-8.
  9. Teerlink CC, Thomas A (2008). An application of the latent p-value method to assess linkage in asthma pedigrees [Abstract]. International Genetic Epidemiology Society Conference.

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