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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - William Allan Award, the American Society of Human Genetics
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jurg Ott is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States and specializes in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans 36 publications in this broad field, with a particular focus on genetics, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Other subfields of study include endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their research covers several main topics including genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and rare diseases, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, hormonal regulation and hypertension, stress responses and cortisol, data mining algorithms and applications, and gene expression and cancer classification.

Jurg Ott has contributed to numerous research papers. Recent publications include:

  • Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Machine learning approaches to explore digenic inheritance, 2022, Trends in Genetics
  • Population genetics: past, present, and future, 2020, Human Genetics
  • Comorbidity of Novel CRHR2 Gene Variants in Type 2 Diabetes and Depression, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Analyses of polymorphisms of intron 2 of OPRK1 (kappa-opioid receptor gene) in association with opioid and cocaine dependence diagnoses in an African-American population, 2021, Neuroscience Letters

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Matthew Randesi
  • Atsuko Okazaki
  • Mary Jeanne Kreek
  • Mutaz Amin
  • Rongling Wu

Jurg Ott has published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Genes
  • Medical Research Archives
  • Nature Genetics

They have been recognized with several awards, including the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2010 and designation as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Complement Factor H Polymorphism in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    Robert J. Klein;Caroline J. Zeiss;Emily Y. Chew;Jen-yue Tsai

  • Strategies for multilocus linkage analysis in humans.

    G M Lathrop;J M Lalouel;C Julier;J Ott

  • Analysis of Human Genetic Linkage

    Jurg Ott

  • Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression: A Meta-analysis

    Neil Risch;Richard Herrell;Thomas Lehner;Kung Yee Liang

  • Multilocus linkage analysis in humans: detection of linkage and estimation of recombination.

    G M Lathrop;J M Lalouel;C Julier;J Ott

  • Estimation of the recombination fraction in human pedigrees: efficient computation of the likelihood for human linkage studies.

    J Ott

  • Handbook of Human Genetic Linkage

    Joseph Douglas Terwilliger;Jurg Ott

  • Analysis of Human Genetic Linkage.

    A. W. F. Edwards;J. Ott

  • Linkage of a prion protein missense variant to Gerstmann–Sträussler syndrome

    Karen Hsiao;Harry F. Baker;Tim J. Crow;Mark Poulter

  • Fatal Familial Insomnia, a Prion Disease with a Mutation at Codon 178 of the Prion Protein Gene

    Rossella Medori;Hans Juergen Tritschler;Andréa Leblanc;Federico Villare

  • Genetic mapping of chronic childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophy to chromosome 5q1 1.2–13.3

    L. M. Brzustowicz;L. M. Brzustowicz;T. Lehner;T. Lehner;L. H. Castilla;L. H. Castilla;G. K. Penchaszadeh;G. K. Penchaszadeh

  • Computer-simulation methods in human linkage analysis

    Jurg Ott

  • A haplotype-based 'haplotype relative risk' approach to detecting allelic associations.

    Joseph D. Terwilliger;Jurg Ott

  • Search for invisible decays of Higgs bosons in the vector boson fusion and associated ZH production modes

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Mapping, Cloning and Genetic Characterization of the Region Containing the Wilson Disease Gene

    K Petrukhin;S G Fischer;M Pirastu;R E Tanzi

  • Strong Association of the Y402H Variant in Complement Factor H at 1q32 with Susceptibility to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    Sepideh Zareparsi;Kari E.H. Branham;Mingyao Li;Sapna Shah

  • An Allele of COL9A2 Associated with Intervertebral Disc Disease

    Susanna Annunen;Petteri Paassilta;Jaana Lohiniva;Merja Perälä

  • Trimming, Weighting, and Grouping SNPs in Human Case-Control Association Studies

    Josephine Hoh;Anja Wille;Jurg Ott

  • Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression

    Neil Risch;Richard Herrell;Thomas Lehner;Kung-Yee Liang

  • Complement factor H polymorphism in age-related macular degeneration

    R.J. Klein;C. Zeiss;E.Y. Chew;J.Y. Tsai

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Jeanne Kreek
Mary Jeanne Kreek Rockefeller University
Jacek Majewski
Jacek Majewski McGill University
Suzanne M. Leal
Suzanne M. Leal Columbia University Medical Center
Joseph D. Terwilliger
Joseph D. Terwilliger Columbia University
Jaro Karppinen
Jaro Karppinen University of Oulu
Leena Ala-Kokko
Leena Ala-Kokko University of Oulu
Stephanie L. Sherman
Stephanie L. Sherman Emory University
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
Hans-Hilger Ropers
Hans-Hilger Ropers Max Planck Society
Newton E. Morton
Newton E. Morton University of Southampton

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