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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Michael Gill is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research activity spans major fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Infectious Diseases

Primary research topics covered by Michael Gill include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Their recent published papers include:

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism (2020, Cell)
  • 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)
  • DNA methylation meta-analysis reveals cellular alterations in psychosis and markers of treatment-resistant schizophrenia (2021, eLife)
  • A phenome-wide association and Mendelian Randomisation study of polygenic risk for depression in UK Biobank (2020, Nature Communications)

Frequent collaborators of Michael Gill include:

  • Aiden Corvin
  • Derek W. Morris
  • Gary Donohoe
  • Mark J. Adams
  • Stephan Ripke

The scientist's work appears regularly in established publication venues, with multiple articles published at:

  • UNC Libraries
  • BMJ
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications

Michael Gill has also contributed to academic literature through book publications in the following presses:

  • Fordham University Press eBooks, including titles such as "Allergic Intimacies" (2022, 2023)
  • University of Minnesota Press, with works like "Furious Feminisms" (2020) and "Narrating Higher Education" (2022)

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

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Shaun M. Purcell;Shaun M. Purcell;Naomi R. Wray;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Peter M. Visscher

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • 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

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

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

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))

    D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims

  • 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

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Colm T. O'Dushlaine;Kimberly D. Chambert;Jennifer L. Moran

  • Life expectancy of individuals on combination antiretroviral therapy in high-income countries: a collaborative analysis of 14 cohort studies

    R Hogg;V Lima;J Sterne;S Grabar

  • 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

  • Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder

    Manuel A R Ferreira;Michael C O'Donovan;Yan A Meng;Ian R Jones

  • Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

    Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Michael C. O’Donovan;Hugh Gurling;George K. Kirov

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

Frequent Co-Authors

Aiden Corvin
Aiden Corvin Trinity College Dublin
Derek W. Morris
Derek W. Morris University of Galway
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Nicholas John Craddock
Nicholas John Craddock Cardiff University
Ziarih Hawi
Ziarih Hawi Monash University
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Peter Holmans
Peter Holmans Cardiff University

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