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Citations
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40

Patrick F. Sullivan publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick F. Sullivan sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 610 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Patrick F. Sullivan D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick F. Sullivan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 166 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Patrick F. Sullivan is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of genetics, molecular biology, and mental health, as reflected in their extensive publication record and diverse areas of study.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • "Reproducible Genetic Risk Loci for Anxiety: Results From ∼200,000 Participants in the Million Veteran Program," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals," 2023, Science
  • "Robust Hi-C Maps of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Reveal the Function of Non-coding Genome in Neural Development and Diseases," 2020, Molecular Cell
  • "Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study," 2022, The Lancet Public Health
  • "Cohort Profile: COVIDMENT: COVID-19 cohorts on mental health across six nations," 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Yi Lu (44 collaborative works)
  • Ole A. Andreassen (33 collaborative works)
  • Fang Fang (28 collaborative works)
  • Unnur Valdimarsdóttir (27 collaborative works)
  • Anna K. Kähler (24 collaborative works)

Patrick F. Sullivan has published extensively across a range of venues, with the most frequent being:

  • UNC Libraries (120 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (35 publications)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology (25 publications)
  • Molecular Psychiatry (14 publications)
  • Nature Communications (9 publications)

The main fields of study covered by their research are concentrated in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The primary topics of their research involve:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Best Publications

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • 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

  • Genetic Epidemiology of Major Depression: Review and Meta-Analysis

    Patrick F. Sullivan;Michael C. Neale;Kenneth S. Kendler

  • Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

    Jordan W. Smoller;Kenneth Kendler;Nicholas John Craddock;Phil Hyoun Lee

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood-Cancer Risk Inferred from Blood DNA Sequence

    Giulio Genovese;Anna K. Kähler;Robert E. Handsaker;Johan Lindberg

  • 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

  • Schizophrenia as a complex trait: evidence from a meta-analysis of twin studies.

    Patrick F. Sullivan;Kenneth S. Kendler;Michael C. Neale

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • 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

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk.

    Iris E. Jansen;Jeanne E. Savage;Kyoko Watanabe;Julien Bryois

  • Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

    Tinca J C Polderman;Beben Benyamin;Christiaan A de Leeuw;Patrick F Sullivan

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: a population-based study.

    Paul Lichtenstein;Benjamin H Yip;Camilla Björk;Yudi Pawitan

  • Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies.

    Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Arthur Ko;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia;Gaurav Bhatia

  • 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

  • Mortality in anorexia nervosa.

    Patrick F. Sullivan

  • Evidence From a Meta-analysis of Twin Studies

    Patrick F. Sullivan;Kenneth S. Kendler;Michael C. Neale

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Christina M. Hultman
Christina M. Hultman Karolinska Institute
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Danielle Posthuma
Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University
Gerome Breen
Gerome Breen King's College London

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