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  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Jonathan Flint is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in the subfields of Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional areas of work include Artificial Intelligence and Physiology.

The scientist's research spans various topics, including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Recent notable publications by Jonathan Flint include:

  • "Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression" (2020), published in Nature Genetics
  • "Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates" (2022), published in Science
  • "The genetic basis of major depressive disorder" (2023), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "A Robust Method Uncovers Significant Context-Specific Heritability in Diverse Complex Traits" (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples" (2021), published in Nature Biomedical Engineering

Jonathan Flint frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Nature Genetics
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Kenneth S. Kendler, Na Cai, Andrew J. Schork, Noah Zaitlen, and Abeer Alwan, with numerous joint publications.

Among their accolades, Jonathan Flint was named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Missing heritability and strategies for finding the underlying causes of complex disease

    Evan E. Eichler;Jonathan Flint;Greg Gibson;Augustine Kong

  • Mouse genomic variation and its effect on phenotypes and gene regulation

    T M Keane;L Goodstadt;P Danecek;M A White

  • Copy number polymorphism in Fcgr3 predisposes to glomerulonephritis in rats and humans

    Timothy J. Aitman;Rong Dong;Timothy J. Vyse;Penny J. Norsworthy

  • Sparse whole-genome sequencing identifies two loci for major depressive disorder

    Na Cai;Tim B. Bigdeli;Warren Kretzschmar;Yihan Li

  • The genetics of major depression.

    Jonathan Flint;Kenneth S. Kendler

  • Meta-analysis of genetic association studies

    Marcus R. Munafò;Jonathan Flint

  • Gene X environment interactions at the serotonin transporter locus.

    Marcus R. Munafò;Caroline Durrant;Glyn Lewis;Jonathan Flint

  • Genome-wide genetic association of complex traits in heterogeneous stock mice

    William Valdar;Leah C Solberg;Leah C Solberg;Dominique Gauguier;Stephanie Burnett

  • Strategies for mapping and cloning quantitative trait genes in rodents

    Jonathan Flint;William Valdar;Sagiv Shifman;Richard Mott

  • The detection of subtelomeric chromosomal rearrangements in idiopathic mental retardation.

    Jonathan Flint;Andrew O.M. Wilkie;Veronica J. Buckle;Robin M. Winter

  • Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in mice, flies, and humans.

    Jonathan Flint;Trudy F.C. Mackay

  • The population genetics of the haemoglobinopathies.

    Jonathan Flint;Rosalind M. Harding;Anthony J. Boyce;John B. Clegg

  • Subtle chromosomal rearrangements in children with unexplained mental retardation.

    Samantha J L Knight;Regina Regan;Alison Nicod;Sharon W Horsley

  • The endophenotype concept in psychiatric genetics

    Jonathan Flint;Marcus R. Munafò

  • Genome-wide Generation and Systematic Phenotyping of Knockout Mice Reveals New Roles for Many Genes

    Jacqueline K White;Anna-Karin Gerdin;Natasha A Karp;Ed Ryder

  • The nature and identification of quantitative trait loci: a community's view.

    Oduola Abiola;Joe M. Angel;Philip Avner;Alexander A. Bachmanov

  • High frequencies of alpha-thalassaemia are the result of natural selection by malaria.

    J Flint;A V Hill;D K Bowden;S J Oppenheimer

  • A method for fine mapping quantitative trait loci in outbred animal stocks.

    Richard Mott;Christopher J. Talbot;Maria G. Turri;Allan C. Collins

  • Genetic polymorphisms and personality in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    M. R. Munafò;T. G. Clark;L. R. Moore;Elizabeth Payne

  • A simple genetic basis for a complex psychological trait in laboratory mice

    Jonathan Flint;Robin Corley;John C. DeFries;David W. Fulker

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Mott
Richard Mott University College London
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
David J. Adams
David J. Adams Wellcome Sanger Institute
Alberto Fernández-Teruel
Alberto Fernández-Teruel Autonomous University of Barcelona
Thomas M. Keane
Thomas M. Keane European Bioinformatics Institute
Samantha J.L. Knight
Samantha J.L. Knight University of Oxford
Douglas R. Higgs
Douglas R. Higgs University of Oxford
Brien P. Riley
Brien P. Riley Virginia Commonwealth University
Bradley T. Webb
Bradley T. Webb Virginia Commonwealth University

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