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Erik G. Jönsson

Erik G. Jönsson

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Medicine

D-Index
70
Citations
19533
World Ranking
20073
National Ranking
109

Overview

Erik G. Jönsson is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has contributed extensively to neuroscience and medicine, focusing on areas such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, genetics, psychiatry, and mental health.

Their research encompasses several main topics including functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, schizophrenia research and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, neural dynamics and brain function, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, and advanced MRI techniques and applications.

Erik G. Jönsson's recent notable papers include:

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jönsson include:

  • Ole A. Andreassen
  • Ingrid Agartz
  • Lars T. Westlye
  • Vince D. Calhoun
  • Stefan Ehrlich

Jönsson's work has been published regularly in several venues, most frequently in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin Open

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

  • A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline

    Thorlakur Jonsson;Jasvinder K. Atwal;Stacy Steinberg;Jon Snaedal

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

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

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

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Polymorphisms in the dopamine D2 receptor gene and their relationships to striatal dopamine receptor density of healthy volunteers.

    E G Jönsson;M M Nöthen;F Grünhage;L Farde

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Europe's rare earth element resource potential: An overview of REE metallogenetic provinces and their geodynamic setting

    K. M. Goodenough;J. Schilling;Erik Jonsson;Erik Jonsson;P. Kalvig

  • Amino acid substitution in the dopamine D3 receptor as a useful polymorphism for investigating psychiatric disorders

    L. Lannfelt;P. Sokoloff;M.-P. Martres;C. Pilon

  • Brain expressed microRNAs implicated in schizophrenia etiology.

    Thomas Hansen;Line Olsen;Morten Lindow;Klaus D. Jakobsen

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Göran Sedvall
Göran Sedvall Karolinska Institute
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn

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