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2026
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Norway
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
103
Citations
74860
World Ranking
661
National Ranking
2

Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
75988
World Ranking
6879
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Norway Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Norway Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Srdjan Djurovic is affiliated with Oslo University Hospital in Norway. Their research focuses primarily on genetics, molecular biology, and psychiatry with an emphasis on psychiatric disorders, genetic associations, and related neurobiological mechanisms.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their contributions extend to several subfields such as:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Srdjan Djurovic has published in prominent academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Djurovic include:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia (2022), published in Nature
  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology (2021), published in Nature Genetics
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts (2021), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Shared Genetic Loci Between Body Mass Index and Major Psychiatric Disorders (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders (2021), published in Biological Psychiatry

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ole A. Andreassen
  • Alexey Shadrin
  • Kevin S. O'Connell
  • Oleksandr Frei
  • Olav B. Smeland

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

  • Variant of TREM2 associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease

    Thorlakur Jonsson;Hreinn Stefansson;Stacy Steinberg;Ingileif Jonsdottir

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • 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

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Vidar M. Steen
Vidar M. Steen University of Bergen
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Erik G. Jönsson
Erik G. Jönsson University of Oslo
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Thomas Espeseth
Thomas Espeseth University of Oslo

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