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Thomas Werge is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders. The scientist has contributed extensively to genetics, molecular biology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their main topics of investigation include genetic associations and epidemiology, genetics related to neurodevelopmental disorders, autism spectrum disorder research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Frequent co-authors include Merete Nordentoft, Anders D. Børglum, David M. Hougaard, Preben Bo Mortensen, and Ole Mors.

Thomas Werge has published numerous articles in several notable venues, among them:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 54 publications
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology, with 29 publications
  • Nature Communications, with 18 publications
  • UNC Libraries, with 17 publications
  • Nature Genetics, with 11 publications

Recent papers published by Thomas Werge include:

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals (2020, Nature Metabolism)
  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains (2023, Nature Genetics)
  • The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank (2022, Nature)
  • Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder (2020, The Lancet 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shared molecular neuropathology across major psychiatric disorders parallels polygenic overlap

    Michael J. Gandal;Jillian R. Haney;Neelroop N. Parikshak;Virpi Leppa

  • Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction.

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Unnur S Bjornsdottir;Unnur S Bjornsdottir;Eva Halapi;Anna Helgadottir

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Preben Bo Mortensen
Preben Bo Mortensen Aarhus University
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
David M. Hougaard
David M. Hougaard Statens Serum Institut
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Thomas Hansen
Thomas Hansen Copenhagen University Hospital
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

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