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Best Female Scientists

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246

Genetics

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322
National Ranking
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Medicine

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Pamela A. F. Madden is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed to several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, genetics, endocrine and autonomic systems, neurology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their main topics of work cover a range of areas:

  • Migraine and Headache Studies
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
  • Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders
  • Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pamela A. F. Madden include:

  • Cross-trait analyses with migraine reveal widespread pleiotropy and suggest a vascular component to migraine headache (2020), published in International Journal of Epidemiology
  • A genome-wide cross-phenotype meta-analysis of the association of blood pressure with migraine (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Elucidating the relationship between migraine risk and brain structure using genetic data (2022), published in Brain
  • Continuity of Genetic Risk for Aggressive Behavior Across the Life-Course (2021), published in Behavior Genetics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Scott D. Gordon
  • Terho Lehtimäki (5 co-authored papers)
  • Andrew C. Heath (5 co-authored papers)
  • Jouke-Jan Hottenga (4 co-authored papers)
  • Nicholas G. Martin (4 co-authored papers)

Several of their publications have appeared repeatedly in notable journals such as Nature Communications (2 papers), International Journal of Epidemiology, Brain, and Behavior Genetics (one paper each).

Best Publications

  • Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

    Jian Yang;Beben Benyamin;Brian P. McEvoy;Scott Gordon

  • 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

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • 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

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits

    Jian Yang;Teresa Ferreira;Andrew P Morris;Sarah E Medland

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol dependence risk in a national twin sample: consistency of findings in women and men

    A. C. Heath;K. K. Bucholz;P. A. F. Madden;S. H. Dinwiddie

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

    Cornelius A. Rietveld;Sarah E. Medland;Jaime Lane Derringer;Jian Yang

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes implicated in a nicotine dependence association study targeting 348 candidate genes with 3713 SNPs

    Scott F. Saccone;Anthony L. Hinrichs;Nancy L. Saccone;Gary A. Chase

  • Escalation of drug use in early-onset cannabis users vs co-twin controls

    Michael T. Lynskey;Andrew C. Heath;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Wendy S. Slutske

  • Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior.

    Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Ida Surakka;Ida Surakka;Jacqueline M Vink

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Variants in nicotinic receptors and risk for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Jerry A. Stitzel;Jen C. Wang;Anthony L. Hinrichs

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

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

  • Novel genes identified in a high-density genome wide association study for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Pamela A F Madden;Naomi Breslau;Eric O. Johnson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Andrew C. Heath
Andrew C. Heath Washington University in St. Louis
Kathleen K. Bucholz
Kathleen K. Bucholz Washington University in St. Louis
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Arpana Agrawal
Arpana Agrawal Washington University in St. Louis
Michael T. Lynskey
Michael T. Lynskey King's College London
Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sarah E. Medland
Sarah E. Medland QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Jouke-Jan Hottenga
Jouke-Jan Hottenga Hamad bin Khalifa University

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