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Manuel Mattheisen

Manuel Mattheisen

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Genetics

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92
Citations
68679
World Ranking
982
National Ranking
27

Medicine

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94
Citations
70231
World Ranking
10231
National Ranking
409

Overview

Manuel Mattheisen is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. Their research activity spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and psychology, with a particular focus on genetics and clinical psychology.

The primary research topics covered in their work include:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

They have contributed extensively to subfields such as:

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

Manuel Mattheisen's frequent co-authors include Nora I. Strom, Sandra Meier, James J. Crowley, Matthew Halvorsen, and Anders D. Børglum.

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry

Notable recent publications by Manuel Mattheisen include:

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of problematic alcohol use in 435,563 individuals yields insights into biology and relationships with other traits (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • Depression pathophysiology, risk prediction of recurrence and comorbid psychiatric disorders using genome-wide analyses (2023, Nature Medicine)
  • Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • 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

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

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

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

  • Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4

    Pamela Sklar;Pamela Sklar;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Laura J. Scott;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • 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

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Preben Bo Mortensen
Preben Bo Mortensen Aarhus University
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel

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