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Gerard D. Schellenberg

Gerard D. Schellenberg

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Genetics
USA
2026

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Genetics

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142
Citations
101664
World Ranking
175
National Ranking
91

Medicine

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151
Citations
109792
World Ranking
1102
National Ranking
634

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 1995 - Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
  • 1994 - Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association
  • 1994 - Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, American Academy of Neurology

Overview

Gerard D. Schellenberg is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on areas intersecting biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with notable contributions across various subfields including genetics, molecular biology, physiology, neurology, and cancer research.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and rare diseases, bioinformatics and genomic networks, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and microRNA in disease regulation.

Significant recent papers authored by Gerard D. Schellenberg include:

  • Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Using Rare Variant Imputation in 65,602 Subjects Identifies Novel Rare Variant Locus NCK2: The International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project (IGAP), 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Novel loci for Alzheimer's disease identified by a genome-wide association study in Ashkenazi Jews, 2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Large-scale sequencing studies expand the known genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring

Gerard D. Schellenberg has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Richard Mayeux
  • Jonathan L. Haines
  • William S. Bush
  • Adam C. Naj
  • Lindsay A. Farrer

The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • JAMA Neurology
  • Nature Genetics

Gerard D. Schellenberg has been recognized with several awards including the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease (1995), the Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases from the American Academy of Neurology (1994), and the Sedgwick Memorial Medal from the American Public Health Association (1994).

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Secreted amyloid beta-protein similar to that in the senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease is increased in vivo by the presenilin 1 and 2 and APP mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's disease.

    D. Scheuner;C. Eckman;C. Eckman;M. Jensen;X. Song

  • Candidate gene for the chromosome 1 familial Alzheimer's disease locus

    Ephrat Levy-Lahad;Wilma Wasco;Parvoneh Poorkaj;Donna M. Romano

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

    Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

  • 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

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

  • Clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy: The movement disorder society criteria

    Günter U Höglinger;Gesine Respondek;Maria Stamelou;Carolin Kurz

  • Patterns and rates of exonic de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorders

    Benjamin M. Neale;Yan Kou;Li Liu;Avi Ma'Ayan

  • Positional Cloning of the Werner's Syndrome Gene

    Chang En Yu;Junko Oshima;Ying Hui Fu;Ellen M. Wijsman

  • Tau is a candidate gene for chromosome 17 frontotemporal dementia.

    Parvoneh Poorkaj;Thomas D. Bird;Ellen Wijsman;Ellen Nemens

  • Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals ubiquitin and neuronal genes

    Joseph T. Glessner;Kai Wang;Guiqing Cai;Olena Korvatska

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional study

    Elisa Majounie;Alan E. Renton;Kin Mok;Elise G. P. Dopper;Elise G. P. Dopper

  • Genetic linkage evidence for a familial Alzheimer's disease locus on chromosome 14.

    Gerard D. Schellenberg;Thomas D. Bird;Ellen M. Wijsman;Harry T. Orr

  • Mutation-Specific Functional Impairments in Distinct Tau Isoforms of Hereditary FTDP-17

    Ming Hong;Victoria Zhukareva;Vanessa Vogelsberg-Ragaglia;Zbigniew Wszolek

  • A framework for the interpretation of de novo mutation in human disease

    Kaitlin E Samocha;Elise B Robinson;Stephan J Sanders;Christine Stevens

  • Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders

    Kai Wang;Haitao Zhang;Deqiong Ma;Maja Bucan

  • A familial Alzheimer's disease locus on chromosome 1

    Ephrat Levy-Lahad;Ellen M. Wijsman;Ellen Nemens;Leojean Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance University of Miami
Lindsay A. Farrer
Lindsay A. Farrer Boston University
Thomas D. Bird
Thomas D. Bird University of Washington
Jonathan L. Haines
Jonathan L. Haines Case Western Reserve University
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux Columbia University
Li-San Wang
Li-San Wang University of Pennsylvania
Adam C. Naj
Adam C. Naj University of Pennsylvania
Ellen M. Wijsman
Ellen M. Wijsman University of Washington
Eden R. Martin
Eden R. Martin University of Miami
Gary W. Beecham
Gary W. Beecham University of Miami

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