Roy King
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Behavioral Medicine
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Psychiatry Department 401 Quarry Rd MC 5722 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 723-5868 Fax (650) 723-9807
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 723-5761Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Psychiatry
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Current research centers on the use of human genetic haploid systems, e.g. the Y chromosome, to understand the prehistory of human migrations particularly since the Holocene. This work includes investigating correlations with human symbolic material culture, focusing on the visual artistic realm. Also being explored are the issues and ethical implications of the social construction of race and ethnicity vis a vis the enhanced capacity to differentiate populations using genotypes.
Publications
- The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean. BMC Evol Biol. 2011: 69
- Separating the post-Glacial coancestry of European and Asian Y chromosomes within haplogroup R1a. Eur J Hum Genet. 2010; (4): 479-84
- Differential Y-chromosome Anatolian influences on the Greek and Cretan Neolithic. Ann Hum Genet. 2008; (Pt 2): 205-14
- The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics. Genome Biol. 2008; (7): 404
- Excavating Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia. Hum Genet. 2004; (2): 127-48
- Somatization in young versus older female panic disorder patients. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1998; (8): 564-7
