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Douglas F. Levinson

Douglas F. Levinson

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Genetics

D-Index
93
Citations
63274
World Ranking
949
National Ranking
468

Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
65819
World Ranking
8725
National Ranking
4499

Overview

Douglas F. Levinson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the disciplines of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in medicine. Key subfields of study include genetics, molecular biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work focuses on a variety of topics such as genetic associations and epidemiology, cognitive abilities and testing, receptor mechanisms and signaling, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, mental health research topics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Douglas F. Levinson's published papers include the following notable recent works:

  • Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Cohort profile: the Australian genetics of depression study, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Cross-platform validation of neurotransmitter release impairments in schizophrenia patient-derived NRXN1-mutant neurons, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Narcolepsy and psychosis: A systematic review, 2021, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicholas G. Martin
  • James B. Potash
  • Jianxin Shi
  • Myrna M. Weissman
  • Cathryn M. Lewis

Douglas F. Levinson publishes often in several venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 6 publications
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research - 2 publications
  • UNC Libraries - 2 publications
  • Nature Genetics - 1 publication
  • Biological Psychiatry - 1 publication

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

  • Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

    Jordan W. Smoller;Kenneth Kendler;Nicholas John Craddock;Phil Hyoun Lee

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

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

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

  • Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

    Michael C. O'Donovan;Nicholas Craddock;Nadine Norton;Hywel Williams

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

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

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • The Genetics of Depression: A Review

    Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

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

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem
Alan R. Sanders
Alan R. Sanders NorthShore University HealthSystem
Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Jianxin Shi
Jianxin Shi National Institutes of Health
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Jubao Duan
Jubao Duan University of Chicago
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University

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