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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bernie Devlin is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial contributions in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist has a significant focus on topics including Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Gene Expression and Cancer Classification, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism (2020, Cell)
  • Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex (2020, Cell Reports)
  • De novo structural mutation rates and gamete-of-origin biases revealed through genome sequencing of 2,396 families (2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
  • Bayesian estimation of cell type-specific gene expression with prior derived from single-cell data (2021, Genome Research)

Bernie Devlin collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Lambertus Klei, Kathryn Roeder, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Michael E. Talkowski, and Stephan Sanders. This network of co-authors reflects interdisciplinarity and active engagement within their research community.

Their work has been published repeatedly in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Biological Psychiatry, European Neuropsychopharmacology, and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

Among recognitions, Bernie Devlin was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Genomic control for association studies.

    B. Devlin;Kathryn Roeder

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

    Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

  • De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;Michael T. Murtha;Abha R. Gupta;John D. Murdoch

  • 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

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • Patterns and rates of exonic de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorders

    Benjamin M. Neale;Yan Kou;Li Liu;Avi Ma'Ayan

  • Mutations in SDHD, a Mitochondrial Complex II Gene, in Hereditary Paraganglioma

    Bora E. Baysal;Robert E. Ferrell;Joan E. Willett-Brozick;Elizabeth C. Lawrence

  • Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals ubiquitin and neuronal genes

    Joseph T. Glessner;Kai Wang;Guiqing Cai;Olena Korvatska

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder Genomic Architecture and Biology from 71 Risk Loci.

    Stephan J. Sanders;Xin He;A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

  • Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation

    Trent Gaugler;Lambertus Klei;Stephan J. Sanders;Corneliu A. Bodea

  • A Comparison of Linkage Disequilibrium Measures for Fine-Scale Mapping

    B. Devlin;Neil Risch

  • Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

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

  • A framework for the interpretation of de novo mutation in human disease

    Kaitlin E Samocha;Elise B Robinson;Stephan J Sanders;Christine Stevens

  • Convergence of Genes and Cellular Pathways Dysregulated in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

  • Coexpression Networks Implicate Human Midfetal Deep Cortical Projection Neurons in the Pathogenesis of Autism

    A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Jeremy Willsey;Stephan J. Sanders;Stephan J. Sanders;Mingfeng Li;Shan Dong;Shan Dong

  • Internalizing Disorders in Childhood

    Maria Kovacs;Bernie Devlin

  • Convergence of genes and cellular pathways dysregulated in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathryn Roeder
Kathryn Roeder Carnegie Mellon University
Lambertus Klei
Lambertus Klei University of Pittsburgh
Joseph D. Buxbaum
Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Matthew W. State
Matthew W. State University of California, San Francisco
Michael E. Talkowski
Michael E. Talkowski Harvard University
Gerard D. Schellenberg
Gerard D. Schellenberg University of Pennsylvania
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar
Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar University of Pittsburgh

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