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2024

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Genetics

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78316
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88

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

George Kirov is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and focuses their research primarily within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans key subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pharmacology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research centers on topics such as Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, and Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies.

Kirov has contributed to multiple publications, notably:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Landscape of multi-nucleotide variants in 125,748 human exomes and 15,708 genomes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • De novo mutations identified by exome sequencing implicate rare missense variants in SLC6A1 in schizophrenia, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Copy number variation and neuropsychiatric illness, 2021, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Kirov include Michael O'Donovan, Michael J. Owen, James Walters, Elliott Rees, and Peter Holmans. These collaborations have contributed to research published in prominent venues.

Key journals and venues where Kirov's work appears frequently include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • 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

  • De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks

    Menachem Fromer;Andrew Pocklington;David Kavanagh;Hywel John Williams

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

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

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

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder

    Manuel A R Ferreira;Michael C O'Donovan;Yan A Meng;Ian R Jones

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • De Novo CNV Analysis Implicates Specific Abnormalities of Postsynaptic Signalling Complexes in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia

    George Kirov;Andrew Pocklington;Peter Alan Holmans;Dobril Ivanov

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Nicholas John Craddock
Nicholas John Craddock Cardiff University
Peter Holmans
Peter Holmans Cardiff University
James T.R. Walters
James T.R. Walters Cardiff University
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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