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Overview

Erin C. Dunn is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine, Psychology, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The emphasis in their work is reflected in subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

Their academic output includes contributions to several prominent topics, including Birth, Development, and Health, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Child Abuse and Trauma, Health Disparities and Outcomes, and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

Erin C. Dunn has published extensively in numerous venues, with the most frequent publishing platforms being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Neuropsychopharmacology, Academic Pediatrics, UNC Libraries, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include Alexandre A. Lussier, Andrew Smith, Esther Walton, Andrew J. Simpkin, and Matthew Suderman.

Their recent notable publications are:

  • "An Exposure-Wide and Mendelian Randomization Approach to Identifying Modifiable Factors for the Prevention of Depression," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference," 2024, Nature Genetics
  • "A phenome-wide association and Mendelian Randomisation study of polygenic risk for depression in UK Biobank," 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • The meaning and importance of employment to people in recovery from serious mental illness: results of a qualitative study.

    Erin C. Dunn;Nancy J. Wewiorski;E. Sally Rogers

  • Developmental timing of child maltreatment and symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation in young adulthood: results from the national longitudinal study of adolescent health

    Erin C. Dunn;Erin C. Dunn;Katie A. McLaughlin;Katie A. McLaughlin;Natalie Slopen;Jonathan Rosand

  • Is developmental timing of trauma exposure associated with depressive and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adulthood?

    Erin C. Dunn;Erin C. Dunn;Kristen Nishimi;Abigail Powers;Bekh Bradley;Bekh Bradley

  • Sensitive Periods for the Effect of Childhood Adversity on DNA Methylation: Results From a Prospective, Longitudinal Study.

    Erin C. Dunn;Thomas W. Soare;Thomas W. Soare;Yiwen Zhu;Andrew J. Simpkin

  • Childhood social environment, emotional reactivity to stress, and mood and anxiety disorders across the life course

    Katie A. McLaughlin;Laura D. Kubzansky;Erin C. Dunn;Robert Waldinger

  • Genetic determinants of depression: recent findings and future directions.

    Erin C. Dunn;Ruth C. Brown;Yael Dai;Jonathan Rosand

  • An Exposure-Wide and Mendelian Randomization Approach to Identifying Modifiable Factors for the Prevention of Depression

    Karmel W Choi;Murray B Stein;Kristen M Nishimi;Tian Ge

  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts

    Guiyan Ni;Jian Zeng;Joana A. Revez;Ying Wang

  • Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank

    Coleman Jri;Peyrot Wj;Purves Kl;Davis Kas

  • The Genetics of the Mood Disorder Spectrum: Genome-wide Association Analyses of More Than 185,000 Cases and 439,000 Controls

    Jonathan R I Coleman;Héléna A Gaspar;Julien Bryois

  • The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry: A Genome-Wide Association Study

    Olga Giannakopoulou;Kuang Lin;Xiangrui Meng;Mei-Hsin Su

  • Childhood trauma and illicit drug use in adolescence: a population-based national comorbidity survey replication-adolescent supplement study

    Hannah Carliner;Katherine M. Keyes;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jacquelyn L. Meyers

  • Neighborhood disorder and telomeres: Connecting children's exposure to community level stress and cellular response

    Katherine P. Theall;Zoë H. Brett;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Erin C. Dunn

  • What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods?

    Erin C. Dunn;Thomas W. Soare;Miriam R. Raffeld;Daniel S. Busso

  • Alcohol and drug-related negative consequences in college students with bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.

    Erin C. Dunn;Mary E. Larimer;Clayton Neighbors

  • Identifying the Common Genetic Basis of Antidepressant Response

    Oliver Pain;Karen Hodgson;Vassily Trubetskoy;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke

  • Developmental timing of trauma exposure and emotion dysregulation in adulthood: Are there sensitive periods when trauma is most harmful?

    Erin C. Dunn;Erin C. Dunn;Kristen Nishimi;Stephanie H. Gomez;Abigail Powers

  • A randomized controlled trial of exercise to improve mood after traumatic brain injury

    Jeanne M. Hoffman;Kathleen R. Bell;Janet M. Powell;James Behr

  • Mode of Physical Activity and Self-Efficacy in Older Adults: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis

    Edward McAuley;Jeffrey Katula;Shannon L. Mihalko;Bryan Blissmer

  • Increasing Social Support for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: Evaluating the Compeer Model of Intentional Friendship

    Brian H. McCorkle;E. Sally Rogers;Erin C. Dunn;Asya Lyass

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Cathryn M. Lewis
Cathryn M. Lewis King's College London
Karmel W. Choi
Karmel W. Choi Massachusetts General Hospital
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Naomi R. Wray
Naomi R. Wray University of Queensland
Douglas F. Levinson
Douglas F. Levinson Stanford University
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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