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Barbara K. Lipska is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research focused primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 35 publications in these main fields of study.

The scientist's work extends across several subfields including molecular biology, genetics, neurology, cancer research, and cognitive neuroscience. The research topics associated with their work cover genetic associations and epidemiology, RNA research and splicing, gene expression and cancer classification, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and bioinformatics and genomic networks.

Significant recent publications by Barbara K. Lipska include:

  • Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Neuronal and glial 3D chromatin architecture informs the cellular etiology of brain disorders, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Functional annotation of rare structural variation in the human brain, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Population-level variation in enhancer expression identifies disease mechanisms in the human brain, 2022, Nature Genetics

The venues where Barbara K. Lipska frequently published include:

  • Biological Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)
  • Scientific Data (1 publication)
  • Nature Neuroscience (1 publication)
  • Nature Genetics (1 publication)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barbara K. Lipska have been:

  • Stefano Marenco (13 papers)
  • Pavan K. Auluck (9 papers)
  • Chang-Gyu Hahn (8 papers)
  • Vahram Haroutunian (8 papers)
  • David A. Lewis (8 papers)

Best Publications

  • Functional Analysis of Genetic Variation in Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT): Effects on mRNA, Protein, and Enzyme Activity in Postmortem Human Brain

    Jingshan Chen;Barbara K. Lipska;Nader Halim;Quang D. Ma

  • Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

    Menachem Fromer;Panos Roussos;Solveig K. Sieberts;Jessica S. Johnson

  • Postpubertal Emergence of Hyperresponsiveness to Stress and to Amphetamine after Neonatal Excitotoxic Hippocampal Damage: A Potential Animal Model of Schizophrenia

    Barbara K. Lipska;George E. Jaskiw;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Prefrontal neurons and the genetics of schizophrenia.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Michael F. Egan;Alessandro Bertolino;Joseph H. Callicott

  • To model a psychiatric disorder in animals: schizophrenia as a reality test.

    Barbara K Lipska;Daniel R Weinberger

  • Cortical maldevelopment, anti-psychotic drugs, and schizophrenia: a search for common ground.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Barbara K. Lipska

  • Reduced brain-derived neurotrophic factor in prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia

    C S Weickert;T M Hyde;B K Lipska;M M Herman

  • Neuregulin 1 transcripts are differentially expressed in schizophrenia and regulated by 5′ SNPs associated with the disease

    Amanda J. Law;Barbara K. Lipska;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Neonatal lesions of the rat ventral hippocampus result in hyperlocomotion and deficits in social behaviour in adulthood

    Frank Sams-Dodd;Barbara K. Lipska;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Neonatal excitotoxic hippocampal damage in rats causes post-pubertal changes in prepulse inhibition of startle and its disruption by apomorphine

    B. K. Lipska;D. R. Weinberger;N. R. Swerdlow;M. A. Geyer

  • Catechol O-methyltransferase mRNA expression in human and rat brain: evidence for a role in cortical neuronal function.

    M. Matsumoto;C.Shannon Weickert;M. Akil;B.K. Lipska

  • The neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion as a heuristic neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia.

    Kuei Y. Tseng;R. Andrew Chambers;Barbara K. Lipska

  • Genetic variation in CACNA1C affects brain circuitries related to mental illness

    Kristin L. Bigos;Venkata S. Mattay;Joseph H. Callicott;Richard E. Straub

  • Genetic Dissection of the Role of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase in Cognition and Stress Reactivity in Mice

    Francesco Papaleo;Jacqueline N. Crawley;Jian Song;Barbara K. Lipska

  • Expression of GABA Signaling Molecules KCC2, NKCC1, and GAD1 in Cortical Development and Schizophrenia

    Thomas M. Hyde;Barbara K. Lipska;Towhid Ali;Shiny V. Mathew

  • Using animal models to test a neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia

    Barbara K Lipska

  • Critical factors in gene expression in postmortem human brain: Focus on studies in schizophrenia.

    Barbara K. Lipska;Amy Deep-Soboslay;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions.

    S K Sieberts;T M Perumal;M M Carrasquillo;M Allen

  • Allelic variation in GAD1 (GAD67) is associated with schizophrenia and influences cortical function and gene expression.

    R E Straub;B K Lipska;M F Egan;T E Goldberg

  • A primate-specific, brain isoform of KCNH2 affects cortical physiology, cognition, neuronal repolarization and risk of schizophrenia

    Stephen J. Huffaker;Jingshan Chen;Kristin K. Nicodemus;Fabio Sambataro

  • Prefrontal Neurons and the Genetics of Schizophrenia

    Daniel R. Weinberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Joel E. Kleinman
Joel E. Kleinman Johns Hopkins University
Mary M. Herman
Mary M. Herman National Institutes of Health
Amanda J. Law
Amanda J. Law University of Colorado Denver
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Francis J. McMahon
Francis J. McMahon National Institutes of Health
Douglas M. Ruderfer
Douglas M. Ruderfer Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bhaskar Kolachana
Bhaskar Kolachana National Institutes of Health
David A. Lewis
David A. Lewis University of Pittsburgh
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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