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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Laura J. Bierut is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans a variety of subfields including genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, epidemiology, and physiology.

Their main topics of study focus on genetic associations and epidemiology, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, smoking behavior and cessation, opioid use disorder treatment, epigenetics and DNA methylation, alcohol consumption and health effects, as well as prenatal substance exposure effects.

Laura J. Bierut's recent publications include:

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Tobacco and nicotine use, 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders, 2023, Nature Mental Health
  • Leveraging genome-wide data to investigate differences between opioid use vs. opioid dependence in 41,176 individuals from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Eric O. Johnson
  • Richard A. Grucza
  • Dana B. Hancock
  • Sarah M. Hartz
  • Danielle M. Dick

Laura J. Bierut has published multiple papers in prominent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol dependence risk in a national twin sample: consistency of findings in women and men

    A. C. Heath;K. K. Bucholz;P. A. F. Madden;S. H. Dinwiddie

  • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

    Cornelius A. Rietveld;Sarah E. Medland;Jaime Lane Derringer;Jian Yang

  • Cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes implicated in a nicotine dependence association study targeting 348 candidate genes with 3713 SNPs

    Scott F. Saccone;Anthony L. Hinrichs;Nancy L. Saccone;Gary A. Chase

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Younghun Han;Xuchen Zong

  • Variants in nicotinic receptors and risk for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Jerry A. Stitzel;Jen C. Wang;Anthony L. Hinrichs

  • Novel genes identified in a high-density genome wide association study for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Pamela A F Madden;Naomi Breslau;Eric O. Johnson

  • A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Renato Polimanti;Emma C. Johnson;Jeanette N. McClintick

  • Suicidal behaviour: an epidemiological and genetic study

    D. J. Statham;Andrew Heath;Pamela Madden;Kathleen Bucholz

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • Familial transmission of substance dependence: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and habitual smoking: a report from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism.

    Laura Jean Bierut;Stephen H. Dinwiddie;Henri Begleiter;Raymond R. Crowe

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Cecelia A Laurie;Kenneth Rice;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Cathy E. Elks;John R B Perry;Patrick Sulem;Daniel I. Chasman

  • Quality control and quality assurance in genotypic data for genome-wide association studies.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Kimberly F. Doheny;Daniel B. Mirel;Elizabeth W. Pugh

  • Early sexual abuse and lifetime psychopathology: a co-twin-control study.

    S. Dinwiddie;Andrew C. Heath;M. P. Dunne;K. K. Bucholz

  • A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence

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

  • Comorbidity of Severe Psychotic Disorders With Measures of Substance Use

    Sarah M. Hartz;Carlos N. Pato;Helena Medeiros;Patricia Cavazos-Rehg

  • Largest GWAS of PTSD (N=20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability

    L. E. Duncan;A. Ratanatharathorn;A. E. Aiello;L. M. Almli

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Edenberg
Howard J. Edenberg Indiana University
Alison Goate
Alison Goate Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Marc A. Schuckit
Marc A. Schuckit University of California, San Diego
Nancy L. Saccone
Nancy L. Saccone Washington University in St. Louis
John P. Rice
John P. Rice Washington University in St. Louis
Tatiana Foroud
Tatiana Foroud Indiana University
Arpana Agrawal
Arpana Agrawal Washington University in St. Louis
Bernice Porjesz
Bernice Porjesz SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Danielle M. Dick
Danielle M. Dick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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