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Overview

Hilary Coon is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with extensive work in Clinical Psychology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The researcher has contributed significantly to topics including Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment.

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism, 2020, Cell
  • Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Suicide Death and Polygenic Prediction of Clinical Antecedents, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • A genome-wide association study of suicide attempts in the million veterans program identifies evidence of pan-ancestry and ancestry-specific risk loci, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna R. Docherty
  • Amanda V. Bakian
  • Andrey A. Shabalin
  • Emily DiBlasi
  • Brooks Keeshin

Common publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • 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

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Linkage of a neurophysiological deficit in schizophrenia to a chromosome 15 locus

    Robert Freedman;Hilary Coon;Marina Myles-Worsley;Avi Orr-Urtreger

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

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

  • Convergence of Genes and Cellular Pathways Dysregulated in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

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

    Kai Wang;Haitao Zhang;Deqiong Ma;Maja Bucan

  • Positional cloning of the human quantitative trait locus underlying taste sensitivity to phenylthiocarbamide

    Un kyung Kim;Eric Jorgenson;Hilary Coon;Mark Leppert

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

    Richard J.L. Anney;Richard J.L. Anney;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Verneri Anttila;Jakob Grove;Jakob Grove

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • Twenty-year outcome for individuals with autism and average or near-average cognitive abilities.

    Megan A. Farley;William M. McMahon;Eric Fombonne;William R. Jenson

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Convergence of genes and cellular pathways dysregulated in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

Frequent Co-Authors

William Byerley
William Byerley University of California, San Francisco
William M. McMahon
William M. McMahon University of Utah
Mark Leppert
Mark Leppert University of Utah
Judith Miller
Judith Miller University of Pennsylvania
Joseph D. Buxbaum
Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Stephen W. Scherer
Stephen W. Scherer University of Toronto
Geraldine Dawson
Geraldine Dawson Duke University
Bernie Devlin
Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh
James S. Sutcliffe
James S. Sutcliffe Vanderbilt University

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