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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Arturas Petronis is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a focus on various subfields including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The researcher's work covers multiple topics such as:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Arturas Petronis has published in leading scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Aging Cell
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers include:

  • Origins of human disease: the chrono-epigenetic perspective, 2021, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Epigenetic age oscillates during the day, 2024, Aging Cell
  • Diurnal oscillations of MRI metrics in the brains of male participants, 2023, Nature Communications
  • DiscoRhythm: an easy-to-use web application and R package for discovering rhythmicity, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • Scikick: A sidekick for workflow clarity and reproducibility during extensive data analysis, 2023, PLoS ONE

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Petronis's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthew Carlucci
  • Karolis Koncevičius
  • Tristram A. Lett
  • Sofia Chavez
  • Alexandra Malinowski

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Arturas Petronis was made a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A human gene that shows identity with the gene encoding the angiotensin receptor is located on chromosome 11

    Brian F. O'Dowd;Michael Heiber;Audrey Chan;Henry H.Q. Heng

  • Epigenomic Profiling Reveals DNA-Methylation Changes Associated with Major Psychosis

    Jonathan Mill;Thomas Tang;Zachary Kaminsky;Tarang Khare

  • DNA methylation profiles in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

    Zachary A. Kaminsky;Thomas Tang;Sun Chong Wang;Sun Chong Wang;Carolyn Ptak

  • A chemical probe selectively inhibits G9a and GLP methyltransferase activity in cells

    Masoud Vedadi;Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy;Feng Liu;Sylvie Rival-Gervier

  • Phenotypic differences in genetically identical organisms: the epigenetic perspective

    Albert H.C. Wong;Irving I. Gottesman;Arturas Petronis

  • Monozygotic Twins Exhibit Numerous Epigenetic Differences: Clues to Twin Discordance?

    Arturas Petronis;Irving I. Gottesman;Peixiang Kan;James L. Kennedy

  • Molecular studies of major depressive disorder: the epigenetic perspective.

    J Mill;A Petronis

  • The origin of schizophrenia: genetic thesis, epigenetic antithesis, and resolving synthesis

    Arturas Petronis

  • Complex disease, gender and epigenetics.

    Zachary Kaminsky;Sun Chong Wang;Arturas Petronis

  • 5-hmC in the brain is abundant in synaptic genes and shows differences at the exon-intron boundary.

    Tarang Khare;Shraddha Pai;Karolis Koncevicius;Karolis Koncevicius;Mrinal Pal

  • Pre- and peri-natal environmental risks for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): the potential role of epigenetic processes in mediating susceptibility

    Jonathan Mill;Arturas Petronis

  • Epigenetics and twins: three variations on the theme.

    Arturas Petronis

  • Epigenetics and complex disease: from etiology to new therapeutics.

    Carolyn Ptak;Arturas Petronis

  • Epigenetic dysregulation of enhancers in neurons is associated with Alzheimer's disease pathology and cognitive symptoms.

    Peipei Li;Lee Marshall;Gabriel Oh;Jennifer L. Jakubowski

  • Gene-body hypermethylation of ATM in peripheral blood DNA of bilateral breast cancer patients

    James M. Flanagan;Marta Munoz-Alegre;Stephen Henderson;Thomas Tang

  • A multi-tissue analysis identifies HLA complex group 9 gene methylation differences in bipolar disorder.

    Z. Kaminsky;M. Tochigi;M. Tochigi;P. Jia;M. Pal

  • Epigenetics of major psychosis: progress, problems and perspectives

    Viviane Labrie;Shraddha Pai;Arturas Petronis

  • Epigenetic approaches to psychiatric disorders.

    Carolyn Ptak;Arturas Petronis

  • An unstable trinucleotide-repeat region on chromosome 13 implicated in spinocerebellar ataxia: A common expansion locus

    John B Vincent;Maria L. Neves-Pereira;Andrew D. Paterson;Etsuko Yamamoto

  • Schizophrenia: An Epigenetic Puzzle?

    Arturas Petronis;Andrew D. Paterson;James L. Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Andrew D. Paterson
Andrew D. Paterson University of Toronto
Jonathan Mill
Jonathan Mill University of Exeter
John B. Vincent
John B. Vincent Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Fabio Macciardi
Fabio Macciardi University of California, Irvine
Paul C. Boutros
Paul C. Boutros University of California, Los Angeles
Jurg Ott
Jurg Ott Rockefeller University
Herbert Y. Meltzer
Herbert Y. Meltzer Northwestern University
Enrico Smeraldi
Enrico Smeraldi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Simon Heath
Simon Heath Pompeu Fabra University

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