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Overview

Gerome Breen is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Psychology.

Their work frequently focuses on subfields such as Genetics, Clinical Psychology, Molecular Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

Main research topics covered by Gerome Breen include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Gerome Breen has coauthored extensively, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Jonathan R. I. Coleman
  • Thalia C. Eley
  • Christopher Hübel
  • Andrew M. McIntosh
  • Cathryn M. Lewis

Common publication venues for their research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent publications include:

  • Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system, 2020, Nature
  • Mental health in UK Biobank - development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis, 2020, BJPsych Open
  • Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression, 2020, Nature Genetics

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

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • 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 meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study.

    Aravinthan Varatharaj;Aravinthan Varatharaj;Naomi Thomas;Mark A Ellul;Mark A Ellul;Mark A Ellul;Nicholas W S Davies

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathryn M. Lewis
Cathryn M. Lewis King's College London
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Peter McGuffin
Peter McGuffin King's College London
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Andrew M. McIntosh
Andrew M. McIntosh University of Edinburgh
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Anne Farmer
Anne Farmer King's College London
Rudolf Uher
Rudolf Uher Dalhousie University

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