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Switzerland
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Genetics

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127
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94622
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285
National Ranking
4

Medicine

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127
Citations
95775
World Ranking
2761
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Sven Cichon is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans a range of subfields including genetics, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and speech and hearing.

Their research topics include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Sven Cichon include:

  • Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders, 2023, Nature Mental Health
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies, 2020, Addiction Biology

Frequent coauthors with whom Sven Cichon has collaborated multiple times include:

  • Andreas J. Forstner
  • Markus M. Nöthen
  • Stefan Herms
  • Franziska Degenhardt
  • Per Hoffmann

Their publications frequently appear in the following venues:

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

    Michael C. O'Donovan;Nicholas Craddock;Nadine Norton;Hywel Williams

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

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

  • Microduplications of 16p11.2 are Associated with Schizophrenia

    Shane E. McCarthy;Vladimir Makarov;George Kirov;Anjene M. Addington

  • A genome-wide association study implicates diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) and several other genes in the etiology of bipolar disorder.

    A E Baum;N Akula;M Cabanero;I Cardona

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Manuel Mattheisen
Manuel Mattheisen Dalhousie University
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
Peter Propping
Peter Propping University of Bonn
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Stephanie H. Witt
Stephanie H. Witt Heidelberg University
Jana Strohmaier
Jana Strohmaier Heidelberg University

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