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Overview

Alan R. Sanders is affiliated with NorthShore University HealthSystem in the United States. Their research spans fields primarily focused on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 67 publications, and Medicine, contributing 27 publications. Within these areas, Sanders has worked extensively in subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Oncology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work covers main topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA Research and Splicing, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling.

Recent research papers include:

  • Allele-specific open chromatin in human iPSC neurons elucidates functional disease variants (2020, Science)
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • The mental health burden of racial and ethnic minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Brain Lipids and Lipid Droplet Dysregulation in Alzheimer's Disease and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (2023, Complex Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Sanders include Jubao Duan, Siwei Zhang, Hanwen Zhang, Zhiping P. Pang, and Alena Kozlova.

Sanders has published regularly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Colm T. O'Dushlaine;Kimberly D. Chambert;Jennifer L. Moran

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

    Michael C. O'Donovan;Nicholas Craddock;Nadine Norton;Hywel Williams

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Synonymous mutations in the human dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) affect mRNA stability and synthesis of the receptor

    Jubao Duan;Mark S. Wainwright;Josep M. Comeron;Naruya Saitou

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem
Jubao Duan
Jubao Duan University of Chicago
Douglas F. Levinson
Douglas F. Levinson Stanford University
Jianxin Shi
Jianxin Shi National Institutes of Health
Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Peter Holmans
Peter Holmans Cardiff University
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University

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