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William Byerley publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Byerley sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 186 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

William Byerley D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Byerley sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

William Byerley is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these broader areas, their focus includes Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Speech and Hearing, Molecular Biology, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist has contributed to a wide range of topics, notably:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare

William Byerley has an extensive record of publications across several prominent venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Nature Genetics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by William Byerley reflect a focus on psychiatric disorders and genetics. Key publications are:

  • "Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia," 2022, Nature
  • "A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia," 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder," 2025, Nature

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Tim B. Bigdeli
  • Srdjan Djurovic
  • Franziska Degenhardt
  • Valentina Escott-Price
  • Josef Frank

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 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

  • 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

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Linkage of a neurophysiological deficit in schizophrenia to a chromosome 15 locus

    Robert Freedman;Hilary Coon;Marina Myles-Worsley;Avi Orr-Urtreger

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • An international two-stage genome-wide search for schizophrenia susceptibility genes.

    H.W. Moises;L. Yang;H. Kristbjarnarson;C. Wiese

  • Copy number variants in schizophrenia: confirmation of five previous findings and new evidence for 3q29 microdeletions and VIPR2 duplications.

    Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Sang Oh;Kai Wang

  • No significant association of 14 candidate genes with schizophrenia in a large European ancestry sample: Implications for psychiatric genetics

    Alan R. Sanders;Jubao Duan;Douglas F. Levinson;Jianxin Shi

  • Genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder in European American and African American individuals.

    E. N. Smith;E. N. Smith;C. S. Bloss;J. A. Badner;T. Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilary Coon
Hilary Coon University of Utah
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Elliot S. Gershon
Elliot S. Gershon University of Chicago
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
John R. Kelsoe
John R. Kelsoe University of California, San Diego
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Sarah E. Bergen
Sarah E. Bergen Karolinska Institute
Alan R. Sanders
Alan R. Sanders NorthShore University HealthSystem

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