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Overview

Nelson B. Freimer is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Genetics and Molecular Biology subfields. Additional areas of study include Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Mental Health Treatment and Access, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Frequently publishing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Biological Psychiatry, Nature Genetics, and Nature, Freimer has contributed extensively to the scientific literature in their fields of study.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia (2022, Nature)
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • Genome-wide association studies of metabolites in Finnish men identify disease-relevant loci (2022, Nature Communications)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Susan K. Service, Aarno Palotie, Carlos López-Jaramillo, Loes M. Olde Loohuis, and Benjamin M. Neale. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary connections in genetics, psychiatry, and molecular biology.

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

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Variance component model to account for sample structure in genome-wide association studies

    Hyun Min Kang;Jae Hoon Sul;Noah A. Zaitlen

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations.

    A Di Rienzo;A C Peterson;J C Garza;A M Valdes

  • 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

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

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

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • A gene encoding a liver-specific ABC transporter is mutated in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis

    S S Strautnieks;L N Bull;A S Knisely;S A Kocoshis

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Samuli Ripatti
Samuli Ripatti University of Helsinki
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Chiara Sabatti
Chiara Sabatti Stanford University
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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