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Esben Agerbo

Aarhus University
Verified email at econ.au.dk
Cited by 47938

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

AF Pardiñas, P Holmans, AJ Pocklington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

V Trubetskoy, AF Pardiñas, T Qi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

NR Wray, S Ripke, M Mattheisen, M Trzaskowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

D Demontis, RK Walters, J Martin, M Mattheisen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable childhood behavioral
disorder affecting 5% of children and 2.5% of adults. Common genetic variants contribute …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism

FK Satterstrom, JA Kosmicki, J Wang, MS Breen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We present the largest exome sequencing study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date
(n= 35,584 total samples, 11,986 with ASD). Using an enhanced analytical framework to …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

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

EA Stahl, G Breen, AJ Forstner, A McQuillin, S Ripke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores

BJ Vilhjálmsson, J Yang, HK Finucane, A Gusev… - The american journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores have shown great promise in predicting complex disease risk and will
become more accurate as training sample sizes increase. The standard approach for …

Suicide risk in relation to socioeconomic, demographic, psychiatric, and familial factors: a national register–based study of all suicides in Denmark, 1981–1997

P Qin, E Agerbo, PB Mortensen - American journal of …, 2003 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: Suicide risk was addressed in relation to the joint effect of factors regarding
family structure, socioeconomics, demographics, mental illness, and family history of suicide …