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Germany
2024

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Genetics

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97
Citations
62994
World Ranking
827
National Ranking
67

Medicine

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102
Citations
66051
World Ranking
7489
National Ranking
427

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas G. Schulze is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and has an extensive publication record in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research focuses primarily on psychiatric and mental health topics, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable subfields including clinical psychology and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scientific work covers several main topics, including bipolar disorder and its treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, schizophrenia research and treatment, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, mental health research topics, and the role of tryptophan in brain disorders.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas G. Schulze include the following:

  • A global needs assessment in times of a global crisis: world psychiatry response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, BJPsych Open
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Lithium's antiviral effects: a potential drug for CoViD-19 disease?, 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • A microRNA signature that correlates with cognition and is a target against cognitive decline, 2021, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • An Investigation of Psychosis Subgroups With Prognostic Validation and Exploration of Genetic Underpinnings, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

Thomas G. Schulze frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Sergi Papiol, Urs Heilbronner, Monika Budde, Peter Falkai, and Eva C. Schulte.

Their publications are commonly found in scientific journals such as European Neuropsychopharmacology, Translational Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BJPsych Open, and Neuroscience Applied.

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

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

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Jana Strohmaier
Jana Strohmaier Heidelberg University
Manuel Mattheisen
Manuel Mattheisen Dalhousie University
Andreas J. Forstner
Andreas J. Forstner Philipp University of Marburg
Francis J. McMahon
Francis J. McMahon National Institutes of Health
Stephanie H. Witt
Stephanie H. Witt Heidelberg University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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