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Overview

Stephan Ripke is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily involves genetics and molecular biology, with a focus on psychiatric disorders and neurogenetics. Ripke's work spans multiple subfields including genetics, molecular biology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

The main topics covered in their research include genetic associations and epidemiology, bipolar disorder and treatment, schizophrenia research and treatment, bioinformatics and genomic networks, genomics and rare diseases, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Frequent co-authors of Stephan Ripke include:

  • Swapnil Awasthi
  • Julia Kraft
  • Jonathan R. I. Coleman
  • Mark J. Adams
  • Georgia Panagiotaropoulou

Stephan Ripke has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent venues for publication are:

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

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by Ripke include:

  • "Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Mapping genomic loci prioritises genes and implicates synaptic biology in schizophrenia," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts," 2021, Biological Psychiatry

The volume of publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology totals 130 works, while their contributions to medicine account for 84 publications. Their research emphasizes the integration of genetic data with psychiatric and neurological outcomes to explore disease mechanisms.

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

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • LD score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies :

    Brendan K Bulik-Sullivan;Po-Ru Loh;Hilary K Finucane;Stephan Ripke

  • Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

    Jordan W. Smoller;Kenneth Kendler;Nicholas John Craddock;Phil Hyoun Lee

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • 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

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations

    J Z Liu;S van Sommeren;H Huang;S C Ng

  • 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

  • Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics.

    Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Alexander Gusev;Gosia Trynka

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • GenABEL: an R library for genome-wide association analysis

    Y. S. Aulchenko;S. Ripke;A. Isaacs;C. M. Van Duijn

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

    Pereyra F;Jia X;McLaren Pj

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University

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