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Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

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Genetics
Germany
2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Germany
2024

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Genetics

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119
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75672
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385
National Ranking
26

Medicine

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123
Citations
79184
World Ranking
3281
National Ranking
177

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Bertram Müller-Myhsok is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular concentration on genetics, molecular biology, psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including genetic associations and epidemiology, stress responses and cortisol, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and migraine and headache studies.

Notable recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression" (2020) published in Nature Genetics
  • "Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia" (2022) published in Nature Genetics
  • "Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders" (2021) published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia" (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Bertram Müller-Myhsok has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Translational Psychiatry, Scientific Reports, The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, and Nature Genetics.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors:

  • Till F. M. Andlauer
  • Markus M. Nöthen
  • Marcella Rietschel
  • Nicholas G. Martin
  • Andreas J. Forstner

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

  • Mutations in LRRK2 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Parkinsonism with Pleomorphic Pathology

    Alexander Zimprich;Alexander Zimprich;Saskia Biskup;Petra Leitner;Peter Lichtner

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • 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

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • 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

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with increased recurrence of depressive episodes and rapid response to antidepressant treatment

    Elisabeth B Binder;Daria Salyakina;Peter Lichtner;Gabriele M Wochnik

  • 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

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees establish RAD51C as a human cancer susceptibility gene

    Alfons Meindl;Heide Hellebrand;Constanze Wiek;Verena Erven

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Genome-wide association study of restless legs syndrome identifies common variants in three genomic regions

    Juliane Winkelmann;Barbara Schormair;Peter Lichtner;Stephan Ripke

  • Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine

    Padhraig Gormley;Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Bendik S. Winsvold;Bendik S. Winsvold;Priit Palta

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Holsboer
Florian Holsboer Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Marcus Ising
Marcus Ising Max Planck Society
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Manfred Uhr
Manfred Uhr Max Planck Society
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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