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Overview

Liz Forty is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Genetics, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Migration, Health and Trauma, and Resilience and Mental Health.

Among recent publications, some notable papers include:

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder (2025, Nature)
  • Genome-wide association study of over 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Diversity in patient and public involvement in healthcare research and education-Realising the potential (2023, Health Expectations)
  • Symptom profile of postpartum and non-postpartum manic episodes in bipolar I disorder: a within-subjects study (2020, Psychiatry Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Liz Forty include:

  • Katherine Gordon-Smith
  • Brandon J. Coombes
  • Anastasia Antoniou
  • Miguel Casas
  • Rosa Bosch

Their contributions appear in recurring publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • 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 of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • The bipolar disorder risk allele at CACNA1C also confers risk of recurrent major depression and of schizophrenia

    EK Green;D Grozeva;I Jones;Lisa Jones

  • Genetics of affective (mood) disorders

    Nick Craddock;Liz Forty

  • Genome wide significant associations in schizophrenia to ITIH3/4, CACNA1C and SDCCAG8, and extensive replication of associations reported by the Schizophrenia PGC

    Marian Lindsay Hamshere;James Tynan Rhys Walters;Rhodri Smith;Alexander Richards

  • Perinatal Episodes Across the Mood Disorder Spectrum

    Arianna Di Florio;Liz Forty;Katherine Gordon-Smith;Jess Heron

  • Familiality of postpartum depression in unipolar disorder: results of a family study.

    Liz Forty;Lisa Jones;Stuart Macgregor;Sian Caesar

  • Copy number variation in bipolar disorder

    E K Green;E Rees;J T R Walters;K-G Smith

  • Genome-wide association study of borderline personality disorder reveals genetic overlap with bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia

    S. H. Witt;F. Streit;M. Jungkunz;J. Frank

  • Evidence For Genetic Heterogeneity Between Clinical Subtypes of Bipolar Disorder

    A. W. Charney;D. M. Ruderfer;E. A. Stahl;J. L. Moran

  • Clinical differences between bipolar and unipolar depression

    Liz Forty;Daniel Smith;Lisa Jones;Ian Jones

  • The Genetics of the Mood Disorder Spectrum: Genome-wide Association Analyses of More Than 185,000 Cases and 439,000 Controls

    Jonathan R I Coleman;Héléna A Gaspar;Julien Bryois

  • Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder

    Liz Forty;Anna Ulanova;Lisa Jones;Ian Jones

  • Replication of bipolar disorder susceptibility alleles and identification of two novel genome-wide significant associations in a new bipolar disorder case–control sample

    E K Green;M Hamshere;L Forty;K Gordon-Smith;K Gordon-Smith

  • Differences in depressive symptom profile between males and females.

    Daniel J. Smith;Sarah Kyle;Liz Forty;Carly Cooper

  • Association Between Schizophrenia-Related Polygenic Liability and the Occurrence and Level of Mood-Incongruent Psychotic Symptoms in Bipolar Disorder

    Judith Allardyce;Ganna Leonenko;Marian Hamshere;Antonio F. Pardiñas

  • Sleep loss as a trigger of mood episodes in bipolar disorder: individual differences based on diagnostic subtype and gender

    Katie Swaden Lewis;Katherine Gordon-Smith;Liz Forty;Arianna Di Florio

  • Cognitive style in bipolar disorder

    Lisa Jones;Jan Scott;Sayeed Haque;Katherine Gordon-Smith

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas John Craddock
Nicholas John Craddock Cardiff University
Katherine Gordon-Smith
Katherine Gordon-Smith University of Worcester
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
George Kirov
George Kirov Cardiff University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Jennifer L. Moran
Jennifer L. Moran Broad Institute
Marian L. Hamshere
Marian L. Hamshere Cardiff University
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School

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