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Kelly L. Klump is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant concentration in clinical psychology. Other notable subfields include public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, genetics, and sociology and political science.

Their work extensively covers topics related to eating disorders and behaviors, obesity, physical activity, and diet. They also address issues in child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, genetic associations and epidemiology, stress responses and cortisol, and the regulation of appetite and obesity.

Kelly L. Klump has contributed papers to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Psychological Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "A Narrative Review of Sex Differences in Eating Disorders: Is There a Biological Basis?" (2020, Clinical Therapeutics)
  • "GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors" (2023, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • "Increased rates of eating disorders and their symptoms in women with major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders" (2020, International Journal of Eating Disorders)
  • "Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies" (2020, Addiction Biology)
  • "Does the tripartite influence model of body image and eating pathology function similarly across racial/ethnic groups of White, Black, Latina, and Asian women?" (2021, Eating Behaviors)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • S. Alexandra Burt
  • U Boston
  • U York
  • Luke W. Hyde
  • U Stanford

Best Publications

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

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Research Review: What we have learned about the causes of eating disorders – a synthesis of sociocultural, psychological, and biological research

    Kristen M. Culbert;Sarah E. Racine;Kelly L. Klump

  • Are Eating Disorders Culture-Bound Syndromes? Implications for Conceptualizing Their Etiology

    Pamela K. Keel;Kelly L. Klump

  • Development and validation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4).

    Lauren M. Schaefer;Natasha L. Burke;J. Kevin Thompson;Robert F. Dedrick

  • Academy for eating disorders position paper: eating disorders are serious mental illnesses.

    Kelly L. Klump;Cynthia M. Bulik;Walter H. Kaye;Janet Treasure

  • Rethinking environmental contributions to child and adolescent psychopathology: a meta-analysis of shared environmental influences.

    S. Alexandra Burt

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Symptom Fluctuation in Eating Disorders: Correlates of Diagnostic Crossover

    Federica Tozzi;Laura M. Thornton;Kelly L. Klump;Manfred M. Fichter

  • Features associated with excessive exercise in women with eating disorders.

    Hemal Shroff;Lauren Reba;Laura M. Thornton;Federica Tozzi

  • Genetic and environmental influences on anorexia nervosa syndromes in a population–based twin sample

    K. L. Klump;K. B. Miller;K. B. Miller;K. B. Miller;P. K. Keel;P. K. Keel;P. K. Keel;M. McGUE

  • Alcohol Use Disorder Comorbidity in Eating Disorders: A Multicenter Study.

    Cynthia M. Bulik;Kelly L. Klump;Laura Thornton;Allan S. Kaplan

  • Puberty as a critical risk period for eating disorders: A review of human and animal studies

    Kelly L. Klump

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud;Gun Peggy Knudsen;Ole Andreas Andreassen;Thomas Espeseth

  • The relation among perfectionism, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in individuals with eating disorders.

    Katherine A. Halmi;Federica Tozzi;Laura M. Thornton;Scott Crow

  • Three to four year prospective evaluation of personality and behavioral risk factors for later disordered eating in adolescent girls and boys

    Gloria R. Leon;Jayne A. Fulkerson;Cheryl L. Perry;Pamela K. Keel

  • Temperament and character in women with anorexia nervosa.

    Kelly Klump;Cynthia Bulik;Christine Pollice;Katherine Halmi

  • Age differences in genetic and environmental influences on eating attitudes and behaviors in preadolescent and adolescent female twins

    Kelly L. Klump;Matt McGue;William G. Iacono

  • Personality characteristics of women before and after recovery from an eating disorder.

    Kelly L. Klump;Michael Strober;Cynthia M. Bulik;Laura Thornton

  • Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

    Karri Silventoinen;Karri Silventoinen;Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon-Mi Hur

  • Personality, perfectionism, and attitudes toward eating in parents of individuals with eating disorders.

    D. Blake Woodside;Cynthia M. Bulik;Katherine A. Halmi;Manfred M. Fichter

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexandra Burt
S. Alexandra Burt Michigan State University
Pamela K. Keel
Pamela K. Keel Florida State University
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Alessandro Rotondo
Alessandro Rotondo University of Pisa
William G. Iacono
William G. Iacono University of Minnesota
Michael C. Neale
Michael C. Neale Virginia Commonwealth University
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Catherine Tuvblad
Catherine Tuvblad Örebro University

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