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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Naomi R. Wray is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, alongside Medicine. Within these areas, their work has a concentrated focus on Genetics and Molecular Biology, along with subfields including Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of genetic and epidemiological themes such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research.

Naomi R. Wray has an extensive publication record, with notable papers including:

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 143 loci associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration, 2020, Nature Communications
  • From Basic Science to Clinical Application of Polygenic Risk Scores, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations, 2021, Cell
  • Risk prediction of late-onset Alzheimer's disease implies an oligogenic architecture, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Could Polygenic Risk Scores Be Useful in Psychiatry?, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

These papers contribute to several high-impact scientific venues. Frequently, their work appears in:

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

Collaborative research forms a significant aspect of their output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter M. Visscher
  • Enda M. Byrne
  • Ian B. Hickie
  • Nicholas G. Martin
  • Sarah E. Medland

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

  • 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

  • 10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

    Peter M. Visscher;Naomi R. Wray;Qian Zhang;Pamela Sklar

  • Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

    Zhihong Zhu;Futao Zhang;Han Hu;Andrew Bakshi

  • 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 meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • 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

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • Heritability in the genomics era — concepts and misconceptions

    Peter M. Visscher;William G. Hill;Naomi R. Wray

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life.

    Riccardo E Marioni;Riccardo E Marioni;Sonia Shah;Allan F McRae;Brian H Chen

  • Estimating Missing Heritability for Disease from Genome-wide Association Studies

    Sang Hong Lee;Naomi R. Wray;Michael E. Goddard;Peter M. Visscher

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

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

  • 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

Peter M. Visscher
Peter M. Visscher University of Oxford
Jian Yang
Jian Yang University of Birmingham
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Andrew M. McIntosh
Andrew M. McIntosh University of Edinburgh
Allan F. McRae
Allan F. McRae University of Queensland
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University

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