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Australia
2024

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Genetics

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120
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67424
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373
National Ranking
11

Medicine

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135
Citations
82223
World Ranking
2037
National Ranking
60

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Peter R. Schofield is affiliated with Neuroscience Research Australia in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields including psychiatry and mental health, physiology, genetics, molecular biology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work covers a range of topics with significant attention on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, bipolar disorder and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as bioinformatics and genomic networks.

Peter R. Schofield has published frequently in several venues. The most common include Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Brain, and Translational Psychiatry.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Schofield include Randall J. Bateman, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal, Johannes Levin, Eric McDade, and Tammie L.S. Benzinger.

Some recent papers reflecting the scope of their research are:

  • A soluble phosphorylated tau signature links tau, amyloid and the evolution of stages of dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Parenchymal border macrophages regulate the flow dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid, 2022, Nature
  • Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics define the natural history of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Segregation of functional networks is associated with cognitive resilience in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Brain

Best Publications

  • Clinical and Biomarker Changes in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Disease

    Randall J. Bateman;Chengjie Xiong;Tammie L.S. Benzinger;Anne M. Fagan

  • Association of missense and 5′-splice-site mutations in tau with the inherited dementia FTDP-17

    M. Hutton;C. L. Lendon;P. Rizzu;M. Baker

  • Sequence and functional expression of the GABA A receptor shows a ligand-gated receptor super-family

    Peter R. Schofield;Peter R. Schofield;Mark G. Darlison;Norihisa Fujita;David R. Burt;David R. Burt

  • 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

  • Importance of a novel GABAA receptor subunit for benzodiazepine pharmacology.

    Dolan B. Pritchett;Harald Sontheimer;Brenda D. Shivers;Sanie Ymer

  • 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

  • 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

  • Rapid and noninvasive diagnosis of the presence and severity of coronary heart disease using 1H-NMR-based metabonomics

    Joanne T. Brindle;Henrik Antti;Elaine Holmes;George Tranter

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Serum neurofilament dynamics predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease

    Oliver Preische;Oliver Preische;Stephanie A. Schultz;Anja Apel;Anja Apel;Jens Kuhle

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Structural and functional basis for GABAA receptor heterogeneity.

    Edwin S. Levitan;Peter R. Schofield;Peter R. Schofield;David R. Burt;Lucy M. Rhee

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Rescue Angioplasty after Failed Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Anthony H. Gershlick;Amanda Stephens-Lloyd;Sarah Hughes;Keith R. Abrams

  • Two novel GABAA receptor subunits exist in distinct neuronal subpopulations

    Brenda D. Shivers;Iris Killisch;Rolf Sprengel;Harald Sontheimer

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

John B.J. Kwok
John B.J. Kwok University of Sydney
Philip B. Mitchell
Philip B. Mitchell University of New South Wales
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Randall J. Bateman
Randall J. Bateman Washington University in St. Louis
John C. Morris
John C. Morris Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen Salloway
Stephen Salloway Brown University
Tammie L.S. Benzinger
Tammie L.S. Benzinger Washington University in St. Louis
Perminder S. Sachdev
Perminder S. Sachdev University of New South Wales
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Carol Dobson-Stone
Carol Dobson-Stone University of Sydney

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