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Overview

Lynn E. DeLisi is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to schizophrenia research and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and rare diseases, and genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities. Additional areas of study include bipolar disorder and treatment, tryptophan and brain disorders, and sex and gender in healthcare.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Subfields contributing to their expertise involve genetics, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, and general health professions.

Lynn E. DeLisi has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Psychiatry Research
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Current Opinion in Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature

Notable recent papers include:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on psychiatric care in the United States, 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • Review and Consensus on Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry, 2020, Pharmacopsychiatry
  • Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry

Lynn E. DeLisi often collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

  • Tim B. Bigdeli
  • Ayman H. Fanous
  • Giulio Genovese
  • Grant D. Huang
  • Richard A. Belliveau

Their publication record includes 36 publications in medicine and 27 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology fields. Among the subfields, genetics accounts for 21 publications and psychiatry and mental health 16 publications.

Lynn E. DeLisi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

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

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

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Effects of Cannabis Use on Human Behavior, Including Cognition, Motivation, and Psychosis: A Review

    Nora D. Volkow;James M. Swanson;A. Eden Evins;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Microduplications of 16p11.2 are Associated with Schizophrenia

    Shane E. McCarthy;Vladimir Makarov;George Kirov;Anjene M. Addington

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

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

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Schizophrenia as a chronic active brain process: a study of progressive brain structural change subsequent to the onset of schizophrenia

    Lynn E. DeLisi;Michael Sakuma;William Tew;Maureen Kushner

  • A recurrent 16p12.1 microdeletion supports a two-hit model for severe developmental delay

    Santhosh Girirajan;Jill A. Rosenfeld;Gregory M. Cooper;Francesca Antonacci

  • Longitudinal neuropsychological follow-up study of patients with first-episode schizophrenia.

    Anne L. Hoff;Michael Sakuma;Mary Wieneke;Robert Horon

  • Brain morphology in first-episode schizophrenic-like psychotic patients: a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Lynn E. DeLisi;Anne L. Hoff;Joseph E. Schwartz;Gail W. Shields

  • Frontal cortex and basal ganglia metabolic rates assessed by positron emission tomography with [18F]2-deoxyglucose in affective illness.

    M.S. Buchsbaum;J. Wu;L.E. DeLisi;H. Holcomb

  • Anteroposterior gradients in cerebral glucose use in schizophrenia and affective disorders.

    Monte S. Buchsbaum;Lynn E. DeLisi;Henry H. Holcomb;John Cappelletti

  • LRRTM1 on chromosome 2p12 is a maternally suppressed gene that is associated paternally with handedness and schizophrenia

    Clyde Francks;S. Maegawa;J. Laurén;B. S. Abrahams

  • Neuropsychological functioning of first-episode schizophreniform patients.

    Anne L. Hoff;Henry Riordan;Donald W. O'Donnell;Laurette Morris

  • Computed Tomography in Schizophreniform Disorder and Other Acute Psychiatric Disorders

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Daniel R. Weinberger;Lynn E. DeLisi;Gerald P. Perman;Steven Targum

  • A Controlled Family Study of Chronic Psychoses: Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder

    E. S. Gershon;L. E. DeLisi;J. Hamovit;John Nurnberger

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne L. Hoff
Anne L. Hoff New York University
Elliot S. Gershon
Elliot S. Gershon University of Chicago
Larry J. Seidman
Larry J. Seidman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
William Byerley
William Byerley University of California, San Francisco
T. J. Crow
T. J. Crow Northwick Park Hospital
Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Michael Gill
Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin

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