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Overview

Assen Jablensky is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The main fields of study encompass genetics and psychiatry and mental health, along with cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses functional brain connectivity studies, genetic associations and epidemiology, and schizophrenia research and treatment. Other major topics include genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, mental health research topics, and genomics and rare diseases.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Assen Jablensky include Murray J. Cairns, Stanley V. Catts, Melissa J. Green, Frans Henskens, and Patricia T. Michie.

Common venues where Jablensky has published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Genetics, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Representative recent papers include:

  • Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Genetic copy number variants, cognition and psychosis: a meta-analysis and a family study, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Mental health recovery and physical health outcomes in psychotic illness: Longitudinal data from the Western Australian survey of high impact psychosis catchments, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Estimating Multimodal Structural Brain Variability in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Worldwide ENIGMA Study, 2025, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Genetic Overlap Profiles of Cognitive Ability in Psychotic and Affective Illnesses: A Multisite Study of Multiplex Pedigrees, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

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

  • Schizophrenia: manifestations, incidence and course in different cultures. A World Health Organization ten-country study.

    A. Jablensky;N. Sartorius;G. Ernberg;M. Anker

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

  • 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

  • Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses.

    Robert Kendell;Assen Jablensky

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

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

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

  • Early manifestations and first-contact incidence of schizophrenia in different cultures. A preliminary report on the initial evaluation phase of the WHO Collaborative Study on determinants of outcome of severe mental disorders.

    N. Sartorius;A. Jablensky;A. Korten;G. Ernberg

  • 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

  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the management of schizophrenia and related disorders

    Cherrie Galletly;David Castle;Frances Dark;Verity Humberstone

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

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

  • Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Geoffrey M. Reed;Michael B. First;Cary S. Kogan;Steven E. Hyman

  • Epidemiology of schizophrenia: the global burden of disease and disability.

    Assen Jablensky

  • The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia

    Norman Sartorius;Robert Shapiro;Assen Jablensky

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

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

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Pregnancy, Delivery, and Neonatal Complications in a Population Cohort of Women With Schizophrenia and Major Affective Disorders

    Assen V. Jablensky;Vera Morgan;Stephen R. Zubrick;Carol Bower

  • The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia: five-year follow-up findings.

    J. Leff;N. Sartorius;A. Jablensky;A. Korten

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Vaughan J. Carr
Vaughan J. Carr University of New South Wales
Patricia T. Michie
Patricia T. Michie University of Newcastle Australia
Johanna C. Badcock
Johanna C. Badcock University of Western Australia
Christos Pantelis
Christos Pantelis University of Melbourne
Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Rodney J. Scott
Rodney J. Scott University of Newcastle Australia
Ulrich Schall
Ulrich Schall University of Newcastle Australia
David J. Castle
David J. Castle University of Tasmania
Carmel M. Loughland
Carmel M. Loughland University of Newcastle Australia
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna

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