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Overview

Carlos N. Pato is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant number of publications in genetics and molecular biology. They have engaged in interdisciplinary studies that extend to psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work addresses various main topics, including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Among their recent publications are:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Complement genes contribute sex-biased vulnerability in diverse disorders, 2020, Nature
  • Genome-Wide Association Studies of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in a Diverse Cohort of US Veterans, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Ancestry-agnostic estimation of DNA sample contamination from sequence reads, 2020, Genome Research

Their frequent co-authors include Michele T. Pato with 57 joint works, Tim B. Bigdeli with 22, Roel A. Ophoff with 18, Michael O'Donovan with 17, and Ayman H. Fanous with 15.

They have published extensively in well-known venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Biological Psychiatry, European Neuropsychopharmacology, and Molecular 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

  • Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Shaun M. Purcell;Shaun M. Purcell;Naomi R. Wray;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Peter M. Visscher

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

  • 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

  • Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

    Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Michael C. O’Donovan;Hugh Gurling;George K. Kirov

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

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

  • 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

  • Assessing the impact of population stratification on genetic association studies.

    Matthew L Freedman;Matthew L Freedman;David Reich;David Reich;Kathryn L Penney;Kathryn L Penney;Gavin J McDonald;Gavin J McDonald

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

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

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • The PhenX Toolkit: Get the Most From Your Measures

    Carol M. Hamilton;Lisa C. Strader;Joseph G. Pratt;Deborah Maiese

  • Comorbidity of Severe Psychotic Disorders With Measures of Substance Use

    Sarah M. Hartz;Carlos N. Pato;Helena Medeiros;Patricia Cavazos-Rehg

  • Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    S. E. Stewart;D. Yu;J. M. Scharf;B. M. Neale

  • Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia

    M Y M Ng;D F Levinson;S Faraone;B K Suarez

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele T. Pato
Michele T. Pato SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University

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