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Overview

Margot Albus is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant emphasis on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, especially schizophrenia.

The main fields of study in Margot Albus's work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

The subfields this scientist has contributed to are:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Nephrology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Important research topics covered by Margot Albus include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Frequent co-authors of Margot Albus are:

  • Farooq Amin
  • Tim B. Bigdeli
  • Ingrid Agartz
  • Madeline Alexander
  • Silviu-Alin Bacanu

They have published extensively in several scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Nature

Recent papers published by Margot Albus include:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia-associated somatic copy-number variants from 12,834 cases reveal recurrent NRXN1 and ABCB11 disruptions, 2023, Cell Genomics
  • Whole-exome sequencing of 81 individuals from 27 multiply affected bipolar disorder families, 2020, Translational 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 study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Support for Association of Schizophrenia with Genetic Variation in the 6p22.3 Gene, Dysbindin, in Sib-Pair Families with Linkage and in an Additional Sample of Triad Families

    Sibylle G. Schwab;Michael Knapp;Stephanie Mondabon;Joachim Hallmayer

  • Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia

    M Y M Ng;D F Levinson;S Faraone;B K Suarez

  • Evaluation of a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia on chromosome 6p by multipoint affected sib–pair linkage analysis

    Sibylle G. Schwab;Margot Albus;Joachim Hallmayer;Sabine Hönig

  • Controllable and uncontrollable stress in humans: alterations in mood and neuroendocrine and psychophysiological function

    Alan Breier;Margot Albus;David Pickar;Theodore P. Zahn

  • Combined Analysis from Eleven Linkage Studies of Bipolar Disorder Provides Strong Evidence of Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 6q and 8q

    Matthew B. McQueen;B. Devlin;Stephen V. Faraone;Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar

  • Serotonin transporter promoter and intron 2 polymorphisms: relationship between allelic variants and gene expression.

    Dubravka Hranilovic;Jasminka Stefulj;Sibylle Schwab;Margitta Borrmann-Hassenbach

  • Systematic screening for mutations in the human serotonin-2A (5-HT2A) receptor gene: identification of two naturally occurring receptor variants and association analysis in schizophrenia.

    Jeanette Erdmann;Daphne Shimron-Abarbanell;Marcella Rietschel;Margot Albus

  • Complement genes contribute sex-biased vulnerability in diverse disorders

    Nolan Kamitaki;Nolan Kamitaki;Aswin Sekar;Aswin Sekar;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker;Heather de Rivera;Heather de Rivera

  • Additional support for schizophrenia linkage on chromosomes 6 and 8: A multicenter study

    Dieter B. Wildenauer;Sibylle G. Schwab;Margot Albus;Joachim Hallmayer

  • A genome-wide autosomal screen for schizophrenia susceptibility loci in 71 families with affected siblings: Support for loci on chromosome 10p and 6

    S.G. Schwab;J. Hallmayer;M. Albus;B. Lerer

  • Gene expression imputation across multiple brain regions provides insights into schizophrenia risk

    Laura M. Huckins;Amanda Dobbyn;Douglas M. Ruderfer;Gabriel Hoffman

  • Evidence suggestive of a locus on chromosome 5q31 contributing to susceptibility for schizophrenia in German and Israeli families by multipoint affected sib-pair linkage analysis

    S G Schwab;G N Eckstein;J Hallmayer;B Lerer

  • Evaluation of linkage of bipolar affective disorder to chromosome 18 in a sample of 57 German families

    M. M. Nothen;S. Cichon;H. Rohleder;S. Hemmer

  • Further evidence for a susceptibility locus on chromosome 10p14-p11 in 72 families with schizophrenia by nonparametric linkage analysis.

    Sibylle G. Schwab;Joachim Hallmayer;Margot Albus;Bernard Lerer

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Dieter B. Wildenauer
Dieter B. Wildenauer University of Western Australia
Sibylle G. Schwab
Sibylle G. Schwab University of Wollongong
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Peter Propping
Peter Propping University of Bonn
Jeremy M. Silverman
Jeremy M. Silverman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem

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