Psychology Major but interested in Genetics

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How much does major matter when applying to MD-PhD programs?

I have a summer's worth of bioinformatics research, a summer of part time computational neuroscience, as well as some psychology research on genetic bases of differences in human's cognition (mainly statistical analyses of large online experiments).

Should I aim to get some wetlab genetics experience? I'm interested in genetics/genomics and would really love to explore this more and I think I have a strong background given that I've taken the pre-med pre-reqs and took more stats and math than generally required for psychology majors (kind of knew I wanted to do some kind of quantitative research from the get go).

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It doesn't matter as much as the quality of your research experiences. If you are interested in genetics, then take a class if available. Regarding the research experience, if that is what you think that you want, try to find a lab that can take you for the summer (and hopefully, the academic year at lesser number of hours).
 
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