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Rolf Adolfsson

Rolf Adolfsson

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Medicine

D-Index
94
Citations
47964
World Ranking
10270
National Ranking
197

Overview

Rolf Adolfsson is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and focuses primarily on research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including genetics, psychiatry and mental health, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, molecular biology, and physiology.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, reflecting a multidimensional approach to understanding complex biological and medical conditions. Key research themes include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence

Adolfsson has contributed to numerous publications, with a particular presence in several frequent venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Nature Communications

Recent scientific papers featuring Adolfsson's work reflect opportunities for understanding psychiatric disorders, genetics, and neurocognitive aging. Selected recent publications include:

  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Biological and environmental predictors of heterogeneity in neurocognitive ageing, 2020, Ageing Research Reviews
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors, 2023, American Journal of Psychiatry

Collaboration is notable in Adolfsson's research career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Aiden Corvin
  • Mikael Landén
  • Andrew McQuillin
  • Janice M. Fullerton
  • Sven Cichon

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 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

  • Major depression in stroke patients : A 3-year longitudinal study

    Monica Åström;Rolf Adolfsson;Kjell Asplund

  • VEGF is a modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and humans and protects motoneurons against ischemic death

    Diether Lambrechts;Erik Storkebaum;Masafumi Morimoto;Jurgen Del-Favero

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • The HCL-32: towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients

    Jules Angst;Rolf Adolfsson;Franco Benazzi;Alex Gamma

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

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

  • Mutations in two genes encoding different subunits of a receptor signaling complex result in an identical disease phenotype

    Juha Paloneva;Tuula Manninen;Grant Christman;Karine Hovanes

  • The betula prospective cohort study: Memory, health, and aging

    Lars-GÖRan Nilsson;Lars BÄCkman;Karin Erngrund;Lars Nyberg

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Changes in the brain catecholamines in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type.

    R Adolfsson;C G Gottfries;B E Roos;B Winblad

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • Circadian clock-related polymorphisms in seasonal affective disorder and their relevance to diurnal preference.

    Carolina Johansson;Matthäeus Willeit;Christina Smedh;Jenny Ekholm

  • Transmitter deficits in Alzheimer's disease.

    John Hardy;Rolf Adolfsson;Irina Alafuzoff;Gösta Bucht

  • Betula: a prospective cohort study on memory, health, and aging

    Lars Göran Nilsson;Rolf Adolfsson;Lars Bäckman;Cindy M. De Frias

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Preliminary communication The HCL-32: Towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients

    Jules Angst;Rolf Adolfsson;Franco Benazzi;Alex Gamma

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Jurgen Del-Favero
Jurgen Del-Favero University of Antwerp
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Lars Nyberg
Lars Nyberg Umeå University
Eli A. Stahl
Eli A. Stahl Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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