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Christina M. Hultman

Christina M. Hultman

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Medicine

D-Index
112
Citations
98184
World Ranking
5034
National Ranking
100

Overview

Christina M. Hultman is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Aging.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, and Congenital Heart Defects Research.

They have published notable papers, including:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia (2022) - Nature
  • The 22q11.2 region regulates presynaptic gene-products linked to schizophrenia (2022) - Nature Communications
  • A shared genetic contribution to breast cancer and schizophrenia (2020) - Nature Communications
  • Intelligence, educational attainment, and brain structure in those at familial high-risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (2020) - Human Brain Mapping
  • Rare tandem repeat expansions associate with genes involved in synaptic and neuronal signaling functions in schizophrenia (2022) - Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors associated with Christina M. Hultman's publications include:

  • Patrick F. Sullivan
  • Pamela Sklar
  • George Kirov
  • Shaun Purcell
  • Tarjinder Singh

The scientist's work has been published in venues such as UNC Libraries, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Nature Communications, Molecular Psychiatry, and Nature, with UNC Libraries being the most frequent venue.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • 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

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood-Cancer Risk Inferred from Blood DNA Sequence

    Giulio Genovese;Anna K. Kähler;Robert E. Handsaker;Johan Lindberg

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

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

  • 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

  • Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: a population-based study.

    Paul Lichtenstein;Benjamin H Yip;Camilla Björk;Yudi Pawitan

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • A polygenic burden of rare disruptive mutations in schizophrenia

    Shaun M Purcell;Jennifer L Moran;Menachem Fromer;Douglas Ruderfer

  • Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4

    Pamela Sklar;Pamela Sklar;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Laura J. Scott;Ole A. Andreassen

  • 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

  • Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation

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

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

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

  • The familial risk of autism.

    Sven Sandin;Paul Lichtenstein;Ralf Kuja-Halkola;Henrik Larsson

  • Variants in ELL2 influencing immunoglobulin levels associate with multiple myeloma

    Bhairavi Swaminathan;Guðmar Thorleifsson;Magnus Jöud;Mina Ali

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mikael Landén
Mikael Landén University of Gothenburg
Sarah E. Bergen
Sarah E. Bergen Karolinska Institute
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Paul Lichtenstein
Paul Lichtenstein Karolinska Institute
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University

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