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Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar

Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar

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Genetics

D-Index
78
Citations
28317
World Ranking
1681
National Ranking
773

Overview

Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across various subfields including Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, notably Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nimgaonkar include Joel Wood, Leonardo D'Aiuto, Ruben C. Gur, Konasale M. Prasad, and Smita N. Deshpande.

Publishing regularly, Nimgaonkar's research appears often in these venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Virology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Health Research Policy and Systems

Recent notable papers demonstrate the scope and thematic focus of Nimgaonkar's work. These include:

  • "Role of Polygenic Risk Score in the Familial Transmission of Bipolar Disorder in Youth," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Why does age of onset predict clinical severity in schizophrenia? A multiplex extended pedigree study," 2020, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • "Modeling Aβ42 Accumulation in Response to Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection: Two Dimensional or Three Dimensional?" 2020, Journal of Virology
  • "Slow-oscillation activity is reduced and high frequency activity is elevated in older adults with insomnia," 2020, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
  • "Patterns of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection in Neural Progenitor Cells," 2020, Journal of Virology

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder

    Manuel A R Ferreira;Michael C O'Donovan;Yan A Meng;Ian R Jones

  • Whole-genome association study of bipolar disorder

    P Sklar;J W Smoller;J Fan;J Fan;M A R Ferreira

  • 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

  • Spatial and Temporal Mapping of De Novo Mutations in Schizophrenia to a Fetal Prefrontal Cortical Network

    Suleyman Gulsuner;Tom Walsh;Amanda C. Watts;Ming K. Lee

  • Association and linkage analyses of RGS4 polymorphisms in schizophrenia

    Kodavali V. Chowdari;Karoly Mirnics;Prachi Semwal;Joel Wood

  • Polygenic dissection of diagnosis and clinical dimensions of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Ayman H. Fanous;Ayman H. Fanous;Ayman H. Fanous;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin

  • Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia

    M Y M Ng;D F Levinson;S Faraone;B K Suarez

  • Association study of eight circadian genes with bipolar I disorder, schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia.

    H. A. Mansour;J. Wood;T. Logue;K. V. Chowdari

  • Neurocognitive Endophenotypes in a Multiplex Multigenerational Family Study of Schizophrenia

    Raquel E. Gur;Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar;Laura Almasy;Monica E. Calkins

  • Fine mapping of ZNF804A and genome wide significant evidence for its involvement in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

    H. J. Williams;N. Norton;S. Dwyer;V. Moskvina

  • Combined Analysis from Eleven Linkage Studies of Bipolar Disorder Provides Strong Evidence of Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 6q and 8q

    Matthew B. McQueen;B. Devlin;Stephen V. Faraone;Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar

  • GWAS of Suicide Attempt in Psychiatric Disorders and Association With Major Depression Polygenic Risk Scores

    Niamh Mullins;Tim B. Bigdeli;Anders D. Børglum;Jonathan R.I. Coleman

  • Joint Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders Increases Accuracy of Risk Prediction for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder

    Robert Maier;Gerhard Moser;Guo-Bo Chen;Stephan Ripke

  • Circadian Phase Variation in Bipolar I Disorder

    Hader A. Mansour;Joel Wood;Kodvali V. Chowdari;Madhulika Dayal

  • A Genomewide Association Study of Response to Lithium for Prevention of Recurrence in Bipolar Disorder

    Roy H. Perlis;Jordan W. Smoller;Manuel A.R. Ferreira;Andrew McQuillin

  • NURR1 mutations in cases of schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder.

    Silvia Buervenich;Andrea Carmine;Mariette Arvidsson;Fengqing Xiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Konasale M. Prasad
Konasale M. Prasad University of Pittsburgh
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Robert H. Yolken
Robert H. Yolken Johns Hopkins University
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Bernie Devlin
Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Matcheri S. Keshavan
Matcheri S. Keshavan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School

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