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1107

Overview

Jubao Duan is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and specializes in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research output notably includes work in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Statistics and Probability, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Jubao Duan has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and UNC Libraries. Other publication venues include Nature, Biological Psychiatry, and JAMA Psychiatry.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Jubao Duan include:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Using brain cell-type-specific protein interactomes to interpret neurodevelopmental genetic signals in schizophrenia, 2023, iScience
  • Distinct genetic liability profiles define clinically relevant patient strata across common diseases, 2024, Nature Communications

Jubao Duan collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including Farooq Amin, Tim B. Bigdeli, Ingrid Agartz, Margot Albus, and Madeline Alexander, all of whom have contributed to multiple joint publications.

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

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • 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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • 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

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Synonymous mutations in the human dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) affect mRNA stability and synthesis of the receptor

    Jubao Duan;Mark S. Wainwright;Josep M. Comeron;Naruya Saitou

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan R. Sanders
Alan R. Sanders NorthShore University HealthSystem
Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem
Douglas F. Levinson
Douglas F. Levinson Stanford University
Jianxin Shi
Jianxin Shi National Institutes of Health
Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Jeremy M. Silverman
Jeremy M. Silverman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Danielle Posthuma
Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University

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