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Pierandrea Muglia

Pierandrea Muglia

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Genetics

D-Index
68
Citations
29771
World Ranking
2398
National Ranking
36

Overview

Pierandrea Muglia is affiliated with UCB Pharma (Belgium) in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on several areas, including:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities

Pierandrea Muglia has frequently published in these venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Nature
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Brain Communications

Their recent publications include these papers:

  • Large-scale targeted sequencing identifies risk genes for neurodevelopmental disorders, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Predicting crystal form stability under real-world conditions, 2023, Nature
  • Radiprodil, a NR2B negative allosteric modulator, from bench to bedside in infantile spasm syndrome, 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Transcriptome signatures from discordant sibling pairs reveal changes in peripheral blood immune cell composition in Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Padsevonil randomized Phase IIa trial in treatment-resistant focal epilepsy: a translational approach, 2020, Brain Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierandrea Muglia include:

  • Elisabetta Trabetti
  • Maurizio Elia
  • Giovanni Malerba
  • David Sciberras
  • Bernardo Dalla Bernardina

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • The brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene confers susceptibility to bipolar disorder: evidence from a family-based association study.

    Maria Neves-Pereira;Emanuela Mundo;Pierandrea Muglia;Nicole King

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

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

  • Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

    Jason Z. Liu;Federica Tozzi;Dawn M. Waterworth;Sreekumar G. Pillai

  • Genomewide association studies: history, rationale, and prospects for psychiatric disorders.

    Sven Cichon;Nick Craddock;Mark Daly;Mark Daly;Stephen V. Faraone

  • A genome-wide investigation of SNPs and CNVs in schizophrenia

    Anna C. Need;Dongliang Ge;Michael E. Weale;Jessica Maia

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S Breen;Michael S Breen

  • α-5/α-3 nicotinic receptor subunit alleles increase risk for heavy smoking

    W. Berrettini;W. Berrettini;X. Yuan;F. Tozzi;K. Song

  • LRRTM1 on chromosome 2p12 is a maternally suppressed gene that is associated paternally with handedness and schizophrenia

    Clyde Francks;S. Maegawa;J. Laurén;B. S. Abrahams

  • Genome-wide association study of migraine implicates a common susceptibility variant on 8q22.1

    Anttila;Stefansson H;Kallela M;Todt U

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 19p13.3 (UNC13A) and 9p21.2 as susceptibility loci for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Michael A van Es;Jan H Veldink;Christiaan G J Saris;Hylke M Blauw

  • Plasma Protein Biomarkers for Depression and Schizophrenia by Multi Analyte Profiling of Case-Control Collections

    Enrico Domenici;David R. Willé;Federica Tozzi;Inga Prokopenko

  • Genome-Wide Pharmacogenetics of Antidepressant Response in the GENDEP Project

    Rudolf Uher;Nader Ali Perroud;Mandy Y. M. Ng;Joanna Hauser

  • 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

Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Ina Giegling
Ina Giegling Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Peter McGuffin
Peter McGuffin King's College London
Anne Farmer
Anne Farmer King's College London
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Clyde Francks
Clyde Francks Max Planck Society
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University

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