Elaine Lyon

Elaine Lyon, PhD, FACMG, is a medical director of Molecular Genetics and co-medical director of Pharmacogenomics at ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. Dr. Lyon is also an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Medical Genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and continued with fellowship training in clinical molecular genetics at the University of Utah. Dr. Lyon combines clinical laboratory responsibilities with research and development in human genetics, employing methods for mutation detection by targeted mutation analysis, gene sequencing, gene scanning, exonic-level deletion, and duplications and molecular haplotyping. Dr. Lyon has focused her interest in determining clinical significance of rare variants and is involved with databases that combine genetic variants with clinical symptoms and evidences for variant classification.