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Overview

Laura Almasy is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans the fields of medicine with a significant focus on genetics and mental health-related disciplines.

The main fields of study for their research include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, subfields of research encompass:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Clinical Psychology

Key research topics that Laura Almasy has contributed to are:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Congenital heart defects research

Some of the frequently used publication venues for their research output include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Blood
  • Nature Communications

Recent notable papers by Laura Almasy include:

  • Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Clonal haematopoiesis and risk of chronic liver disease, 2023, Nature
  • A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response, 2021, Nature Genetics

Frequent collaborators in Laura Almasy's research include:

  • David C. Glahn
  • Sébastien Jacquemont
  • Laura M. Schultz
  • John Blangero
  • Guillaume Huguet

Best Publications

  • Multipoint Quantitative-Trait Linkage Analysis in General Pedigrees

    Laura Almasy;John Blangero

  • Cortical Thickness or Grey Matter Volume? The Importance of Selecting the Phenotype for Imaging Genetics Studies

    Anderson M. Winkler;Peter V. Kochunov;John Blangero;Laura Almasy

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Variations in GABRA2, Encoding the α2 Subunit of the GABAA Receptor, Are Associated with Alcohol Dependence and with Brain Oscillations

    Howard J. Edenberg;Danielle M. Dick;Xiaoling Xuei;Huijun Tian

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • Discovery of expression QTLs using large-scale transcriptional profiling in human lymphocytes.

    Harald H H Göring;Joanne E Curran;Matthew P Johnson;Thomas D Dyer

  • An autosomal genomic scan for loci linked to type II diabetes mellitus and body-mass index in Pima Indians.

    Robert L. Hanson;Margaret G. Ehm;David J. Pettitt;Michal Prochazka

  • A major quantitative trait locus determining serum leptin levels and fat mass is located on human chromosome 2

    Anthony G. Comuzzie;James E. Hixson;Laura Almasy;Braxton D. Mitchell

  • Genetic control over the resting brain.

    D. C. Glahn;D. C. Glahn;A. M. Winkler;A. M. Winkler;P. Kochunov;Laura Almasy

  • Bivariate quantitative trait linkage analysis: pleiotropy versus co-incident linkages

    Laura Almasy;Thomas D. Dyer;John Blangero

  • Genetic analysis of idiopathic torsion dystonia in Ashkenazi Jews and their recent descent from a small founder population.

    Neil Risch;Neil Risch;Deborah de Leon;Laurie Ozelius;Patricia Kramer

  • A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence

    Laura J. Bierut;Arpana Agrawal;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • Genetic Contribution of the Endothelial Constitutive Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene to Plasma Nitric Oxide Levels

    Xing L. Wang;Michael C. Mahaney;Ah Siew. Sim;Jun Wang

  • Linkage of type 2 diabetes mellitus and of age at onset to a genetic location on chromosome 10q in Mexican Americans.

    Ravindranath Duggirala;John Blangero;Laura Almasy;Thomas D. Dyer

  • Genetic Susceptibility to Thrombosis and Its Relationship to Physiological Risk Factors: The GAIT Study

    Juan Carlos Souto;Laura Almasy;Montserrat Borrell;Francisco Blanco-Vaca

  • Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence:significant findings in African- and European-Americans including novel risk loci

    J Gelernter;H R Kranzler;R Sherva;L Almasy

  • Plasma lipid profiling in a large population-based cohort

    Jacquelyn M. Weir;Gerard Wong;Christopher K. Barlow;Melissa A. Greeve

  • Linkage disequilibrium between the beta frequency of the human EEG and a GABAA receptor gene locus.

    Bernice Porjesz;Laura Almasy;Howard J. Edenberg;Kongming Wang

  • Endophenotypes as quantitative risk factors for psychiatric disease: rationale and study design.

    L. Almasy;J. Blangero

Frequent Co-Authors

John Blangero
John Blangero The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Thomas D. Dyer
Thomas D. Dyer The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital
Shelley A. Cole
Shelley A. Cole Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Harald H H Göring
Harald H H Göring The University of Texas at Austin
Ravindranath Duggirala
Ravindranath Duggirala Texas A&M University – San Antonio
Anthony G. Comuzzie
Anthony G. Comuzzie Obesity Society
Michael C. Mahaney
Michael C. Mahaney The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Anderson M. Winkler
Anderson M. Winkler National Institutes of Health
Howard J. Edenberg
Howard J. Edenberg Indiana University

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