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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Matthew W. State is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in the subfields of Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. The scientist's work also intersects with Psychiatry and Mental Health as well as Surgery.

The principal topics of their research include Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Matthew W. State include the following:

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism (2020, Cell)
  • Autism spectrum disorder (2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers)
  • Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder (2022, Nature Reviews Neuroscience)
  • Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Genetics and the Search for Pathological Mechanisms (2021, American Journal of Psychiatry)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Matthew W. State include:

  • A. Jeremy Willsey (19 joint publications)
  • Helen Rankin Willsey (12 joint publications)
  • Belinda Wang (10 joint publications)
  • Jeanselle Dea (10 joint publications)
  • Stephan Sanders (9 joint publications)

Publication venues where Matthew W. State has frequently contributed are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 8 publications
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry with 7 publications
  • Cell Reports with 4 publications
  • Nature Communications with 3 publications
  • Development with 3 publications

Recognition of Matthew W. State's scientific work includes the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine awarded in 2017 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

    Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

  • The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder

    Ivan Iossifov;Brian J. O'Roak;Stephan J. Sanders;Stephan J. Sanders;Michael Ronemus

  • De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;Michael T. Murtha;Abha R. Gupta;John D. Murdoch

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder Genomic Architecture and Biology from 71 Risk Loci.

    Stephan J. Sanders;Xin He;A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek

  • Autism spectrum disorder

    Catherine Lord;Traolach S Brugha;Tony Charman;James Cusack

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

  • Sequence variants in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette's syndrome.

    Jesse F. Abelson;Kenneth Y. Kwan;Brian J. O'Roak;Danielle Y. Baek

  • Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders

    Kai Wang;Haitao Zhang;Deqiong Ma;Maja Bucan

  • Coexpression Networks Implicate Human Midfetal Deep Cortical Projection Neurons in the Pathogenesis of Autism

    A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Jeremy Willsey;Stephan J. Sanders;Stephan J. Sanders;Mingfeng Li;Shan Dong;Shan Dong

  • Rare independent mutations in renal salt handling genes contribute to blood pressure variation

    Weizhen Ji;Jia Nee Foo;Brian J O'Roak;Hongyu Zhao

  • Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Fred Volkmar;Matthew Siegel;Marc Woodbury-Smith;Bryan King

  • Genomic Analysis of Non-NF2 Meningiomas Reveals Mutations in TRAF7, KLF4, AKT1, and SMO

    Victoria E. Clark;E. Zeynep Erson-Omay;Akdes Serin;Jun Yin

  • Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks

    Mingfeng Li;Gabriel Santpere;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Oleg V Evgrafov

  • Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

    Richard J.L. Anney;Richard J.L. Anney;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Verneri Anttila;Jakob Grove;Jakob Grove

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Functional and Evolutionary Insights into Human Brain Development through Global Transcriptome Analysis

    Matthew B. Johnson;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Christopher E. Mason;Željka Krsnik

  • Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis and Resequencing of Contactin Associated Protein-Like 2 in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Betul Bakkaloglu;Betul Bakkaloglu;Brian J. O'Roak;Angeliki Louvi;Abha R. Gupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Bernie Devlin
Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Richard P. Lifton
Richard P. Lifton Rockefeller University
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles
Nenad Sestan
Nenad Sestan Yale University
Kathryn Roeder
Kathryn Roeder Carnegie Mellon University
Lambertus Klei
Lambertus Klei University of Pittsburgh
Joseph D. Buxbaum
Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Murat Gunel
Murat Gunel Yale University

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