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Overview

Walter J. Muir was affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their career included contributions to academia before their passing.

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Best Publications

  • Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Shaun M. Purcell;Shaun M. Purcell;Naomi R. Wray;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Peter M. Visscher

  • 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

  • Disruption of two novel genes by a translocation co-segregating with schizophrenia

    J. Kirsty Millar;Julie C. Wilson-Annan;Susan Anderson;Sheila Christie

  • 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

  • Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

    Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Michael C. O’Donovan;Hugh Gurling;George K. Kirov

  • Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders—Cosegregation with a Translocation at Chromosome 1q42 That Directly Disrupts Brain-Expressed Genes: Clinical and P300 Findings in a Family

    Douglas Blackwood;Douglas Blackwood;A. Fordyce;M. T. Walker;D. M. St Clair

  • Association within a family of a balanced autosomal translocation with major mental illness

    D. St Clair;D. Blackwood;W. Muir;M. Walker

  • Whole-genome association study of bipolar disorder

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

  • DISC1 and PDE4B are interacting genetic factors in schizophrenia that regulate cAMP signaling.

    J. Kirsty Millar;Benjamin S. Pickard;Shaun Mackie;Rachel James

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Genomewide association studies: history, rationale, and prospects for psychiatric disorders.

    Sven Cichon;Nick Craddock;Mark Daly;Mark Daly;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • Genome-wide association for major depressive disorder: a possible role for the presynaptic protein piccolo

    P.F. Sullivan;E.J.C. de Geus;G. Willemsen;M.R. James

  • A locus for bipolar affective disorder on chromosome 4p

    D. H. R. Blackwood;L. He;S. W. Morris;A. Mclean

  • Case-control study of neurocognitive function in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder: an association with mania.

    J.T.O. Cavanagh;M. Van Beck;W. Muir;D.H.R. Blackwood

  • Auditory P300 and eye tracking dysfunction in schizophrenic pedigrees.

    Douglas H. R. Blackwood;David M. St Clair;Walter J. Muir;John C. Duffy

  • Additional support for schizophrenia linkage on chromosomes 6 and 8: A multicenter study

    Dieter B. Wildenauer;Sibylle G. Schwab;Margot Albus;Joachim Hallmayer

  • Neurocognitive impairment in euthymic young adults with bipolar spectrum disorder and recurrent major depressive disorder

    Daniel J. Smith;Walter J. Muir;Douglas H. R. Blackwood

  • Genomic structure and localisation within a linkage hotspot of Disrupted In Schizophrenia 1, a gene disrupted by a translocation segregating with schizophrenia.

    J K Millar;S Christie;S Anderson;D Lawson

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Blackwood
Douglas Blackwood University of Edinburgh
David J. Porteous
David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh
Peter M. Visscher
Peter M. Visscher University of Oxford
Naomi R. Wray
Naomi R. Wray University of Queensland
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Julien Mendlewicz
Julien Mendlewicz Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel

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