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Overview

John B. Vincent is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research primarily falls under the overarching field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a specific focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their scholarly work concentrates on several topics including Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Cellular Transport and Secretion, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies, and Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer.

Frequent publication venues for their work include European Neuropsychopharmacology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genes, Scientific Reports, and UNC Libraries.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by John B. Vincent are the following:

  • Mutations disrupting neuritogenesis genes confer risk for cerebral palsy, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Biallelic mutations in the death domain of PIDD1 impair caspase-2 activation and are associated with intellectual disability, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • De Novo and Bi-allelic Pathogenic Variants in NARS1 Cause Neurodevelopmental Delay Due to Toxic Gain-of-Function and Partial Loss-of-Function Effects, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Non-Shared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Stephen F. Pastore, Tahir Muhammad, Ricardo Harripaul, Muhammad Ayub, and Paul W. Frankland.

Best Publications

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

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • 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

  • Structural variation of chromosomes in autism spectrum disorder.

    Christian R. Marshall;Abdul Noor;John B. Vincent;Anath C. Lionel

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • 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

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

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

  • Contribution of SHANK3 Mutations to Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Rainald Moessner;Christian R. Marshall;James S. Sutcliffe;Jennifer Skaug

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

    Jason Z. Liu;Federica Tozzi;Dawn M. Waterworth;Sreekumar G. Pillai

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

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • Mapping the NPHP-JBTS-MKS Protein Network Reveals Ciliopathy Disease Genes and Pathways

    Liyun Sang;Julie J. Miller;Kevin C. Corbit;Rachel H. Giles

  • Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders.

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Dalila Pinto;Joana Almeida

  • A previously unidentified MECP2 open reading frame defines a new protein isoform relevant to Rett syndrome.

    Gevork N Mnatzakanian;Hannes Lohi;Iulia Munteanu;Simon E Alfred

  • Genome-wide association and meta-analysis of bipolar disorder in individuals of European ancestry

    Laura J. Scott;Pierandrea Muglia;Pierandrea Muglia;Xiangyang Q. Kong;Weihua Guan

  • The genetic basis of non-syndromic intellectual disability: a review

    Liana Kaufman;Muhammad Ayub;Muhammad Ayub;John B. Vincent;John B. Vincent

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Stephen W. Scherer
Stephen W. Scherer University of Toronto
John S. Strauss
John S. Strauss Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Mikael Landén
Mikael Landén University of Gothenburg
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Gerome Breen
Gerome Breen King's College London
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital

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