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  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jay A. Tischfield is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, Tischfield's work often addresses molecular biology, genetics, clinical psychology, epidemiology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including genetic associations and epidemiology, alcohol consumption and health effects, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, autism spectrum disorder research, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Their recent publications reflect these interests. They include:

  • Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction (2021, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed health care workers in New Jersey, at the onset of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic (2020, BMC Infectious Diseases)
  • Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed health care workers at the onset of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Multi-omics integration analysis identifies novel genes for alcoholism with potential overlap with neurodegenerative diseases (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Is Comparable in Clinical Samples Preserved in Saline or Viral Transport Medium (2020, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics)

Tischfield has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Howard J. Edenberg, Danielle M. Dick, Chella Kamarajan, Bernice Porjesz, and Samuel Kuperman. These collaborations have contributed substantively to their body of work.

Their publications appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, and Genes Brain & Behavior, indicating a presence in both preprint servers and peer-reviewed journals.

Among professional achievements, Tischfield was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007, a distinction reflecting engagement with the broader scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

  • Single-nucleotide polymorphism in the human mu opioid receptor gene alters beta-endorphin binding and activity : possible implications for opiate addiction

    Cherie Bond;K. Steven LaForge;Mingting Tian;Dorothy Melia

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

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

  • Mutations in the proteolytic enzyme calpain 3 cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A

    Isabelle Richard;Odile Broux;Valéerie Allamand;Françoise Fougerousse

  • Genome‐wide search for genes affecting the risk for alcohol dependence

    Theodore Reich;Howard J. Edenberg;Alison Goate;Jeff T. Williams

  • Variants in nicotinic receptors and risk for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Jerry A. Stitzel;Jen C. Wang;Anthony L. Hinrichs

  • The functions of five distinct mammalian phospholipase A2S in regulating arachidonic acid release. Type IIa and type V secretory phospholipase A2S are functionally redundant and act in concert with cytosolic phospholipase A2.

    Makoto Murakami;Satoko Shimbara;Terumi Kambe;Hiroshi Kuwata

  • A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence

    Laura J. Bierut;Arpana Agrawal;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • Heritability and genomics of gene expression in peripheral blood

    Fred A. Wright;Patrick F. Sullivan;Andrew I. Brooks;Fei Zou

  • Evidence of common and specific genetic effects: association of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2 (CHRM2) gene with alcohol dependence and major depressive syndrome

    Jen C. Wang;Anthony L. Hinrichs;Heather Stock;John Budde

  • Interrogating the Genetic Determinants of Tourette’s Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders Through Genome-Wide Association Studies

    Dongmei Yu;Jae Hoon Sul;Fotis Tsetsos;Muhammad S Nawaz

  • CCR2-Dependent Recruitment of Macrophages by Tumor-Educated Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Promotes Tumor Development and Is Mimicked by TNFα

    Guangwen Ren;Guangwen Ren;Xin Zhao;Ying Wang;Xin Zhang

  • L-histidine decarboxylase and Tourette's syndrome.

    A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Althea A. Stillman;Ananda K. Ghosh;Kaya Bilguvar

  • Embryonic stem cells and somatic cells differ in mutation frequency and type

    Rachel B. Cervantes;James R. Stringer;Changshun Shao;Jay A. Tischfield

  • The linkage of genes for the human interferon-induced antiviral protein and indophenol oxidase-B traits to chromosome G-21.

    Y. H. Tan;J. Tischfield;F. H. Ruddle

  • A reassessment of the low molecular weight phospholipase A2 gene family in mammals

    Jay A. Tischfield

  • Linkage disequilibrium between the beta frequency of the human EEG and a GABAA receptor gene locus.

    Bernice Porjesz;Laura Almasy;Howard J. Edenberg;Kongming Wang

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

  • Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence implicates a region on chromosome 11

    Howard J. Edenberg;Daniel L. Koller;Xiaoling Xuei;Leah Wetherill

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Edenberg
Howard J. Edenberg Indiana University
Alison Goate
Alison Goate Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Marc A. Schuckit
Marc A. Schuckit University of California, San Diego
Bernice Porjesz
Bernice Porjesz SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Tatiana Foroud
Tatiana Foroud Indiana University
Samuel Kuperman
Samuel Kuperman University of Iowa
Peter J. Stambrook
Peter J. Stambrook University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Danielle M. Dick
Danielle M. Dick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Laura J. Bierut
Laura J. Bierut Washington University in St. Louis

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