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Overview

Ariel Darvasi was affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spanned the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Economics and Econometrics as subfields.

The scientist's work covered several main topics, including:

  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Ariel Darvasi published research in venues such as:

  • Neuron
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers include:

  • Distinct genetic liability profiles define clinically relevant patient strata across common diseases, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Novel ultra-rare exonic variants identified in a founder population implicate cadherins in schizophrenia, 2021, Neuron
  • Novel Ultra-Rare Exonic Variants Identified in a Founder Population Implicate Cadherins in Schizophrenia, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist frequently collaborated with several co-authors, notably:

  • Todd Lencz
  • Jin Yu
  • Raiyan R. Khan
  • Shai Carmi
  • Max Lam

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

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

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

  • The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits

    Gary A. Churchill;David C. Airey;Hooman Allayee;Joe M. Angel

  • 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

  • A Highly Significant Association between a COMT Haplotype and Schizophrenia

    Sagiv Shifman;Michal Bronstein;Meira Sternfeld;Anne Pisanté-Shalom

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Advanced intercross lines, an experimental population for fine genetic mapping.

    A Darvasi;M Soller

  • Experimental strategies for the genetic dissection of complex traits in animal models.

    Ariel Darvasi

  • Detecting marker-QTL linkage and estimating QTL gene effect and map location using a saturated genetic map.

    A Darvasi;A Weinreb;V Minke;J I Weller

  • The nature and identification of quantitative trait loci: a community's view.

    Oduola Abiola;Joe M. Angel;Philip Avner;Alexander A. Bachmanov

  • A simple method to calculate resolving power and confidence interval of QTL map location.

    A Darvasi;M Soller

  • Selective genotyping for determination of linkage between a marker locus and a quantitative trait locus.

    A Darvasi;M Soller

  • Genome-wide association identifies a common variant in the reelin gene that increases the risk of schizophrenia only in women

    Sagiv Shifman;Martina Johannesson;Michal Bronstein;Sam X. Chen

  • Association between the oxytocin receptor ( OXTR ) gene and autism: relationship to Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and cognition

    E Lerer;S Levi;S Salomon;A Darvasi

  • Selective DNA pooling for determination of linkage between a molecular marker and a quantitative trait locus.

    A Darvasi;M Soller

  • Length Distributions of Identity by Descent Reveal Fine-Scale Demographic History

    Pier Francesco Palamara;Todd Lencz;Ariel Darvasi;Itsik Pe’er

  • The involvement of ErbB4 with schizophrenia: association and expression studies.

    Gilad Silberberg;Ariel Darvasi;Ronit Pinkas-Kramarski;Ruth Navon

  • Linkage disequilibrium patterns of the human genome across populations

    Sagiv Shifman;Jane Kuypers;Mark Kokoris;Benjamin Yakir

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd Lencz
Todd Lencz Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Derek W. Morris
Derek W. Morris University of Galway
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Tune H. Pers
Tune H. Pers University of Copenhagen
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel

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