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The 2021-2026 picture for Washington University in St. Louis Department of Genetics is a 58-PI network with 85 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (38% of slots across 41 PIs; 41 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 29 PIs; 29 labels), and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation as the leading topic (3% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Tammie L.S. Benzinger (28.7 weighted works; Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications); Carlos Cruchaga (28.2 weighted works; Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks). The clearest collaboration lines are Malachi Griffith and Obi L. Griffith (105 shared works, weight 28.1). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 33.2, around Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, led by Sidharth V. Puram, Aadel A. Chaudhuri, Joseph D. Dougherty.