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Ina Giegling is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work extensively covers areas including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, Immunology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The researcher's publications contribute notably to topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, as well as Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet.

Among recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Ina Giegling are:

  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders, 2023, Nature Mental Health
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies, 2020, Addiction Biology

Ina Giegling has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Dan Rujescu, Bettina Konte, Annette M. Hartmann, Ole A. Andreassen, and Srdjan Djurovic. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications.

The scientist's research is published in various venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pharmacopsychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Variant of TREM2 associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease

    Thorlakur Jonsson;Hreinn Stefansson;Stacy Steinberg;Ingileif Jonsdottir

  • 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

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • 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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • 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

  • Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior.

    Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Ida Surakka;Ida Surakka;Jacqueline M Vink

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

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

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

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
H.-J. Möller
H.-J. Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Hans-Jürgen Möller
Hans-Jürgen Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University

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