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Colm O'Dushlaine

Colm O'Dushlaine

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Genetics

D-Index
65
Citations
43586
World Ranking
2647
National Ranking
1166

Overview

Colm O'Dushlaine is affiliated with insitro Inc. in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 54 publications, and Medicine, with 23 publications.

The subfields of study in which O'Dushlaine has contributed include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Epidemiology.

O'Dushlaine's work covers several main topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting.

Some of the frequent publication venues for O'Dushlaine's research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Genetics
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Nature

The scientist has collaborated extensively with coauthors including Joshua Backman, Anthony Marcketta, Aris Baras, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, and Zachary R. McCaw.

Among O'Dushlaine's recent publications are:

  • Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Exome sequencing and characterization of 49,960 individuals in the UK Biobank, 2020, Nature
  • Genome-wide analysis provides genetic evidence that ACE2 influences COVID-19 risk and yields risk scores associated with severe disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Computationally efficient whole genome regression for quantitative and binary traits, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pan-ancestry exome-wide association analyses of COVID-19 outcomes in 586,157 individuals, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genetic and Pharmacologic Inactivation of ANGPTL3 and Cardiovascular Disease

    Frederick E Dewey;Viktoria Gusarova;Richard L Dunbar;Colm T O'Dushlaine

  • Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits.

    Joelle Mbatchou;Leland Barnard;Joshua Backman;Anthony Marcketta

  • A Protein-Truncating HSD17B13 Variant and Protection from Chronic Liver Disease

    Noura S. Abul-Husn;Xiping Cheng;Alexander H. Li;Yurong Xin

  • 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

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Biobank-driven genomic discovery yields new insight into atrial fibrillation biology

    Jonas B. Nielsen;Rosa B. Thorolfsdottir;Rosa B. Thorolfsdottir;Lars G. Fritsche;Wei Zhou

  • Inactivating Variants in ANGPTL4 and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease.

    Frederick E. Dewey;Viktoria Gusarova;Colm O'Dushlaine;Omri Gottesman

  • Distribution and clinical impact of functional variants in 50,726 whole-exome sequences from the DiscovEHR study

    Frederick E. Dewey;Michael F. Murray;John D. Overton;Lukas Habegger

  • Computationally efficient whole genome regression for quantitative and binary traits

    Joelle Mbatchou;Leland Barnard;Joshua Backman;Anthony Marcketta

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Derek W. Morris
Derek W. Morris University of Galway
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Douglas M. Ruderfer
Douglas M. Ruderfer Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Aiden Corvin
Aiden Corvin Trinity College Dublin
Christina M. Hultman
Christina M. Hultman Karolinska Institute
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University

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