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Stephanie H. Witt

Stephanie H. Witt

Overview

Stephanie H. Witt is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and psychology. Their work spans several key subfields including genetics, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas such as epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic associations and epidemiology, bipolar disorder and treatment, mental health research topics, birth, development and health, genetic syndromes and imprinting, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Recent publications include:

  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • 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
  • An Investigation of Psychosis Subgroups With Prognostic Validation and Exploration of Genetic Underpinnings, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Identification of transdiagnostic psychiatric disorder subtypes using unsupervised learning, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology

Stephanie H. Witt frequently publishes in a range of scientific venues including:

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

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Marcella Rietschel
  • Fabian Streit
  • Lea Zillich
  • Markus M. Nöthen
  • Josef Frank

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

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

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

  • 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 genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • 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

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Renato Polimanti;Emma C. Johnson;Jeanette N. McClintick

  • Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant.

    Christine Esslinger;Henrik Walter;Peter Kirsch;Susanne Erk

  • Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study

    Liping Hou;Urs Heilbronner;Urs Heilbronner;Franziska Degenhardt;Mazda Adli

  • Multiple Independent Loci at Chromosome 15q25.1 Affect Smoking Quantity: a Meta-Analysis and Comparison with Lung Cancer and COPD

    Nancy L. Saccone;Nancy L. Saccone;Robert C Culverhouse;Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An;Dale S. Cannon

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Fabian Streit
Fabian Streit Heidelberg University
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Manuel Mattheisen
Manuel Mattheisen Dalhousie University

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