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D-Index
70
Citations
18138
World Ranking
2274
National Ranking
1020

Overview

Yin Yao Shugart is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The scientific work focuses primarily on areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to psychology. Their research integrates various subfields including genetics, molecular biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, as well as public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics covered by Shugart's work consist of genetic associations and epidemiology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, cognitive abilities and testing, bioinformatics and genomic networks, sex and gender in healthcare, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shugart include Wei Guo, Benjamin M. Neale, Ekaterina Khramtsova, Janita Bralten, and Carol A. Mathews.

Shugart's publications are often found in several specific scholarly venues with a recurring presence in the following journals:

  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • iScience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Shugart include:

  • "Multi-trait analysis for genome-wide association study of five psychiatric disorders," 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Examining Sex-Differentiated Genetic Effects Across Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Traits," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Genome-wide association study of pediatric obsessive-compulsive traits: shared genetic risk between traits and disorder," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Cell type-specific and cross-population polygenic risk score analyses of MIR137 gene pathway in schizophrenia," 2021, iScience
  • "Examining sex-differentiated genetic effects across neuropsychiatric and behavioral traits," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis

    John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux;Ramnik J. Xavier;Kent D. Taylor;Mark S. Silverberg

  • Autosomal recessive lissencephaly with cerebellar hypoplasia is associated with human RELN mutations

    Susan E. Hong;Yin Yao Shugart;David T. Huang;Saad Al Shahwan

  • Mapping human genetic diversity in Asia

    Mahmood Ameen Abdulla;Ikhlak Ahmed;Anunchai Assawamakin;Anunchai Assawamakin;Jong Bhak

  • Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

    Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

  • Exome sequencing and the genetic basis of complex traits

    Adam Kiezun;Kiran Garimella;Ron Do;Ron Do;Nathan O Stitziel;Nathan O Stitziel

  • Abnormal cerebellar development and axonal decussation due to mutations in AHI1 in Joubert syndrome.

    Russell J Ferland;Wafaa Eyaid;Randall V Collura;Laura D Tully

  • Mutations in ARFGEF2 implicate vesicle trafficking in neural progenitor proliferation and migration in the human cerebral cortex

    Volney L Sheen;Vijay S Ganesh;Meral Topcu;Guillaume Sebire

  • Genome-wide association study in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCGAS

    Mattheisen M;Samuels Jf;Wang Y;Greenberg Bd

  • Genetic variants in STAT4 and HLA-DQ genes confer risk of hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma

    De Ke Jiang;Jielin Sun;Guangwen Cao;Yao Liu

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

  • Genome-wide scan for familial nasopharyngeal carcinoma reveals evidence of linkage to chromosome 4

    Bing Jian Feng;Wei Huang;Yin Yao Shugart;Ming K. Lee

  • Trends in incidence and mortality of nasopharyngeal carcinoma over a 20–25 year period (1978/1983–2002) in Sihui and Cangwu counties in southern China

    Wei Hua Jia;Qi Hong Huang;Jian Liao;Weimin Ye

  • Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.

    Jack F. Samuels;O. Joseph Bienvenu;Anthony Pinto;Abby J. Fyer

  • Localization of Usher syndrome type II to chromosome 1q.

    William J. Kimberling;Michael D. Weston;Claes Möller;Sandra L.H. Davenport

  • Sapap3 and pathological grooming in humans: Results from the OCD collaborative genetics study.

    O. J. Bienvenu;Y. Wang;Y. Y. Shugart;J. M. Welch

  • Germ-line mutation analysis in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and related disorders.

    Sophie Giraud;Chang X. Zhang;Olga Serova-Sinilnikova;Virginie Wautot

  • Genetic influences on schizophrenia and subcortical brain volumes: large-scale proof of concept

    B Franke;J L Stein;J L Stein;S Ripke;S Ripke;S Ripke;V Anttila;V Anttila

  • Significant linkage to compulsive hoarding on chromosome 14 in families with obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.

    Jack Samuels;Yin Yao Shugart;Marco A Grados;Virginia L Willour

  • Replication Study Supports Evidence for Linkage to 9p24 in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Virginia L. Willour;Yin Yao Shugart;Jack Samuels;Marco Grados;Marco Grados

  • Suggestive linkage to chromosomal regions 13q31 and 22q12 in families with psychotic bipolar disorder.

    James B. Potash;Peter P. Zandi;Virginia L. Willour;Tsuo Hung Lan

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Riddle
Mark A. Riddle Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Gerald Nestadt
Gerald Nestadt Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University
James T. McCracken
James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles
David L. Pauls
David L. Pauls Harvard University
Abby J. Fyer
Abby J. Fyer Columbia University
Steven A. Rasmussen
Steven A. Rasmussen Brown University
Scott L. Rauch
Scott L. Rauch McLean Hospital
Dennis L. Murphy
Dennis L. Murphy National Institutes of Health

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