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Yunpeng Wang

Yunpeng Wang

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
55
Citations
17870
World Ranking
206
National Ranking
2

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
20233
World Ranking
14160
National Ranking
69

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Yunpeng Wang is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily spans genetics, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and physiology, with a significant focus on genetic associations and epidemiology as well as functional brain connectivity studies.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including health, environment, and cognitive aging, neurological disorders and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yunpeng Wang include:

  • Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change (2021, eLife)
  • Deep neural networks learn general and clinically relevant representations of the ageing brain (2022, NeuroImage)
  • Genome-wide Association Analysis of Parkinson's Disease and Schizophrenia Reveals Shared Genetic Architecture and Identifies Novel Risk Loci (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Genetic Association Between Schizophrenia and Cortical Brain Surface Area and Thickness (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Education and Income Show Heterogeneous Relationships to Lifespan Brain and Cognitive Differences Across European and US Cohorts (2021, Cerebral Cortex)

Yunpeng Wang frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, most notably:

  • Kristine B. Walhovd
  • Anders M. Fjell
  • Øystein Sørensen
  • Didac Vidal-Piñeiro
  • Ole A. Andreassen

Their publications often appear in well-regarded venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Their body of work contributes to understanding complex neurological and psychiatric conditions as well as brain aging processes, integrating genetic data with neuroimaging and clinical information.

Best Publications

  • 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 meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk.

    Iris E. Jansen;Jeanne E. Savage;Kyoko Watanabe;Julien Bryois

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Analysis of five chronic inflammatory diseases identifies 27 new associations and highlights disease-specific patterns at shared loci

    David Ellinghaus;Luke Jostins;Sarah L. Spain;Adrian Cortes

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders

    Min-Tzu Lo;David A. Hinds;Joyce Y. Tung;Carol Franz

  • Genetic assessment of age-associated Alzheimer disease risk: Development and validation of a polygenic hazard score

    Rahul S. Desikan;Chun Chieh Fan;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Andrew J. Schork

  • Genome-wide Pleiotropy Between Parkinson Disease and Autoimmune Diseases.

    Aree Witoelar;Iris E. Jansen;Yunpeng Wang;Rahul S. Desikan

  • Bivariate causal mixture model quantifies polygenic overlap between complex traits beyond genetic correlation.

    Oleksandr Frei;Dominic Holland;Olav Bjerkehagen Smeland;Olav Bjerkehagen Smeland;Alexey A. Shadrin

  • Genetic pleiotropy between multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder : differential involvement of immune-related gene loci

    O A Andreassen;O A Andreassen;O A Andreassen;H F Harbo;Y Wang;W K Thompson

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity

    Peter K. Joshi;Nicola Pirastu;Katherine A Kentistou;Krista Fischer

  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts

    Guiyan Ni;Jian Zeng;Joana A. Revez;Ying Wang

  • Genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease at the MAPT locus.

    R.S. (R. S.) Desikan;A.J. (A. J.) Schork;Y. Wang;Y. Wang;Aree Witoelar

  • Polygenic hazard score to guide screening for aggressive prostate cancer: development and validation in large scale cohorts

    Tyler M. Seibert;Chun Chieh Fan;Yunpeng Wang;Verena Zuber;Verena Zuber

  • Association Between Genetic Traits for Immune-Mediated Diseases and Alzheimer Disease

    Jennifer S. Yokoyama;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Andrew J. Schork;Wesley K. Thompson

  • Immune-related genetic enrichment in frontotemporal dementia: An analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Iris Broce;Celeste M Karch;Natalie Wen;Chun C Fan

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Andrew J. Schork
Andrew J. Schork University of Copenhagen
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen

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