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Jennifer L. Moran

Jennifer L. Moran

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Genetics

D-Index
67
Citations
58318
World Ranking
2466
National Ranking
1104

Overview

Jennifer L. Moran is affiliated with the Broad Institute in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, with a primary focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work extensively covers genetics and related subfields, including epidemiology and molecular biology, with additional interests in infectious diseases and rehabilitation.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Jennifer L. Moran has published in various prominent venues, with the most frequent being UNC Libraries. Other publication venues include:

  • Stroke
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Developmental Cell

Their recent notable papers demonstrate a breadth of topics and contributions in multiple areas of biomedicine and molecular research:

  • Exome sequencing in schizophrenia-affected parent-offspring trios reveals risk conferred by protein-coding de novo mutations, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Functional Diversification of SRSF Protein Kinase to Control Ubiquitin-Dependent Neurodevelopmental Signaling, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • Duration of Exposure Among Close Contacts of Patients With Infectious Tuberculosis and Risk of Latent Tuberculosis Infection, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • High-throughput matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry-based deubiquitylating enzyme assay for drug discovery, 2020, Nature Protocols
  • Predictors of Outcomes in Patients With Mild Ischemic Stroke Symptoms: MaRISS, 2021, Stroke

Collaboration is a notable aspect of the scientist's work, with frequent co-authors including Steven A. McCarroll, Benjamin M. Neale, Pamela Sklar, Shaun Purcell, and Giulio Genovese. These collaborations indicate active engagement in large-scale genetic studies and interdisciplinary teams.

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

  • Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Shaun M. Purcell;Shaun M. Purcell;Naomi R. Wray;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Peter M. Visscher

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood-Cancer Risk Inferred from Blood DNA Sequence

    Giulio Genovese;Anna K. Kähler;Robert E. Handsaker;Johan Lindberg

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • 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

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • 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

  • De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks

    Menachem Fromer;Andrew Pocklington;David Kavanagh;Hywel John Williams

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Colm T. O'Dushlaine;Kimberly D. Chambert;Jennifer L. Moran

  • A polygenic burden of rare disruptive mutations in schizophrenia

    Shaun M Purcell;Jennifer L Moran;Menachem Fromer;Douglas Ruderfer

  • 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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • De Novo CNV Analysis Implicates Specific Abnormalities of Postsynaptic Signalling Complexes in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia

    George Kirov;Andrew Pocklington;Peter Alan Holmans;Dobril Ivanov

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

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

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

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

  • Discovery and Statistical Genotyping of Copy-Number Variation from Whole-Exome Sequencing Depth

    Menachem Fromer;Jennifer L. Moran;Kimberly Chambert;Eric Banks

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Douglas M. Ruderfer
Douglas M. Ruderfer Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Sarah E. Bergen
Sarah E. Bergen Karolinska Institute

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