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Preben Bo Mortensen

Preben Bo Mortensen

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120006
World Ranking
902
National Ranking
14

Overview

Preben Bo Mortensen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Genetics, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work focuses significantly on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Health Disparities and Outcomes, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Preben Bo Mortensen has coauthored numerous papers in collaboration with researchers including Anders D. Børglum, Merete Nordentoft, Thomas Werge, David M. Hougaard, and Esben Agerbo.

The most frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Neuropsychopharmacology, UNC Libraries, Nature Communications, and Nature Genetics.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mortensen include:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia (2022, Nature)
  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains (2023, Nature Genetics)
  • Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Depression pathophysiology, risk prediction of recurrence and comorbid psychiatric disorders using genome-wide analyses (2023, Nature Medicine)

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

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

  • 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

  • The Danish Civil Registration System. A cohort of eight million persons.

    Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Heine Gøtzsche;Jørgen Ostrup Møller;Preben Bo Mortensen

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register.

    Ole Mors;Gurli P. Perto;Preben Bo Mortensen

  • 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

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

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

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Suicide risk in relation to socioeconomic, demographic, psychiatric, and familial factors: a national register-based study of all suicides in Denmark, 1981-1997.

    Ping Qin;Esben Agerbo;Preben Bo Mortensen

  • Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophrenia.

    Preben Bo Mortensen;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Tine Westergaard;Jan Wohlfahrt

  • The Danish Psychiatric Central Register.

    P Munk-Jørgensen;P B Mortensen

  • Risk Factors for Autism: Perinatal Factors, Parental Psychiatric History, and Socioeconomic Status

    Heidi Jeanet Larsson;William W. Eaton;Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen;Mogens Vestergaard

  • New parents and mental disorders. A population-based register study

    Trine Munk-Olsen;Thomas Munk Laursen;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Ole Mors

  • Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia

    Thomas Munk Laursen;Merete Nordentoft;Preben Bo Mortensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Esben Agerbo
Esben Agerbo Aarhus University
David M. Hougaard
David M. Hougaard Statens Serum Institut
Carsten Bøcker Pedersen
Carsten Bøcker Pedersen Aarhus University
John J. McGrath
John J. McGrath Aarhus University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

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