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2025

Adams, M. J., Streit, F., Meng, X., Awasthi, S., Adey, B. N., Choi, K. W., ... & Jonsson, L. (2025). Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies. Cell. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.002

Singh, M., Dolan, C. V., Lapato, D. M., et al. (2025). Unidirectional and bidirectional causation between smoking and blood DNA methylation: Evidence from twin-based Mendelian randomisation. European Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-024-01187-5

2024

Van der Laan, C. M., Ip, H. F., Schipper, M., Hottenga, J.-J., Krapohl, E. M. L., Brikell, I., Soler Artigas, M., Cabana-Domínguez, J., Natalia, L., Nolte, I. M., et al. (2024). Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on childhood ADHD symptoms and diagnosis reveals 17 novel loci and 22 potential effector genes [Preprint]. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.24305817

Bigdeli, T. B., Barr, P. B., Rajeevan, N., et al. (2024). Correlates of suicidal behaviors and genetic risk among United States veterans with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 29, 2399–2407. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02472-1

Bountress, K. E., Bustamante, D., Ahangari, M., Aliev, F., Aggen, S. H., Lancaster, E., Spit for Science Working Group, Peterson, R. E., Vassileva, J., Dick, D. M., & Amstadter, A. B. (2024). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol use disorder symptoms: Testing interactions with polygenic risk. Journal of American College Health: J of ACH, 1–6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2024.2308255

Edwards, A. C., Singh, M., Peterson, R. E., Webb, B. T., & Gentry, A. E. (2024). Associations between polygenic liability to psychopathology and non-suicidal versus suicidal self-injury. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 195(7), e32982. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.32982

Williams, C. D., Gade, S., Johnson, K., Peterson, R. E., Moreno, O., Hood, K. B., Santana, A., Vassileva, J., Dick, D. M., Amstadter, A. B., Chartier, K. G., & Bravo, D. Y. (2024). The longitudinal mediating role of sleep in associations between COVID-19 stressors predicting mental and physical health outcomes among emerging adult college students. Stress and Health, 40(5), e3416. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3416

Sankoh, M., Clifford, J., Peterson, R. E., & Prom-Wormley, E. (2024). Racial and ethnic differences in comorbid psychosis: A population-based study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1280253. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1280253

Meng, X., Navoly, G., Giannakopoulou, O., Levey, D. F., Koller, D., Pathak, G. A., Koen, N., Lin, K., Adams, M. J., Rentería, M. E., Feng, Y., Gaziano, J. M., Stein, D. J., Zar, H. J., Campbell, M. L., van Heel, D. A., Trivedi, B., Finer, S., McQuillin, A., … Kuchenbaecker, K. (2024). Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of Major Depression AIDS locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference. Nature Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01596-4

Barr, P. B., Bigdeli, T. B., Meyers, J. L., Peterson, R. E., Sanchez-Roige, S., Mallard, T. T., Dick, D. M., Harden, K. P., Wilkinson, A., Graham, D. P., Nielsen, D. A., Swann, A. C., Lipsky, R. K., Kosten, T. R., Aslan, M., Harvey, P. D., Kimbrel, N. A., Beckham, J. C., Aslan, M., … Whittle, J. (2024). Correlates of risk for disinhibited behaviors in the million veteran program cohort. JAMA Psychiatry, 81(2), 188. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.4141

Sheerin, C. M., O’Hara-Payne, R. K., Lancaster, E. E., Suarez-Rivas, H., Chatzinakos, C., Prom-Wormley, E. C., & Peterson, R. E. (2024). Examining interactions between polygenic scores and interpersonal trauma exposure on alcohol consumption and use disorder in an ancestrally diverse college cohort. Frontiers in Genetics, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1274381

2023

Guintivano, J., Byrne, E. M., Kiewa, J., Yao, S., Bauer, A. E., Aberg, K. A., Adams, M. J., Campbell, A., Campbell, M. L., Choi, K. W., Corfield, E. C., Havdahl, A., Hucks, D., Koen, N., Lu, Y., Mægbæk, M. L., Mullaert, J., Peterson, R. E., Raffield, L. M., … Sullivan, P. (2023). Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies for postpartum depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 180(12), 884–895. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230053

Edwards, A. C., Gentry, A. E., Peterson, R. E., Webb, B. T., & Mościcki, E. K. (2023). Multifaceted risk for non-suicidal self-injury only versus suicide attempt in a population-based cohort of adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 333, 474–481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.04.040

Murgueito, J., Martínez-Magaña, J. J., Trujillo-Chi Vacuan, E., Cortes-Morales, S. A., Compte, E. J., Storch, E. A., Camarena, B. E., Muniz Carvahlo, C., Peterson, R. E., Belangero, S. I., Montalvo-Ortiz, J. L., Atkinson, E., Giusti-Rodríguez, P., Genomics Consortium, L. A., & Bulik, C. M. (2023). Importance of including individuals of Latin American ancestry in genetic studies of feeding and eating disorders. Revista Puertorriqueña de Psicologia, 34(2), 262–283. https://doi.org/10.55611/reps.3402.10

Bountress, K. E., Bustamante, D., Subbie-Saenz de Viteri, S., Chatzinakos, C., Sheerin, C., Daskalakis, N. P., … Amstadter, A. (2023). Differences in genetic correlations between posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol-related problems phenotypes compared to alcohol consumption-related phenotypes. Psychological Medicine, 53(12), 5767–5777. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002999

Williams, C. D., DeLaney, E. N., Moreno, O., Santana, A., Fuentes, L., Muñoz, G., Elias, M. de, Johnson, K. F., Peterson, R. E., Hood, K. B., Vassileva, J., Dick, D. M., & Amstadter, A. B. (2023). Interactions between COVID-19 family home disruptions and relationships predicting college students’ mental health over time. Journal of Family Psychology, 37(5), 592–602. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001085

Gedik, H., Nguyen, T. H., Peterson, R. E., Chatzinakos, C., Vladimirov, V. I., Riley, B. P., & Bacanu, S.-A. (2023). Identifying potential risk genes and pathways for neuropsychiatric and substance use disorders using intermediate molecular mediator information. Frontiers in Genetics, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1191264

Gedik, H., Peterson, R. E., Riley, B. P., Vladimirov, V. I., & Bacanu, S.-A. (2023). Integrative post-genome-wide association study analyses relevant to psychiatric disorders: Imputing transcriptome and proteome signals. Complex Psychiatry, 9(1–4), 130–144. https://doi.org/10.1159/000530223

Johnson, E. C., Kapoor, M., Hatoum, A. S., Zhou, H., Polimanti, R., Wendt, F. R., … Agrawal, A. (2023). Investigation of convergent and divergent genetic influences underlying schizophrenia and alcohol use disorder. Psychological Medicine, 53(4), 1196–1204. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172100266X

Gentry, A. E., Alexander, J., Ahangari, M., Peterson, R. E., VCU Alcohol Research Center Working Group, Miles, M. F., Bettinger, J. C., Davies, A. G., Groteweil, M., Bacanu, S. A., Kendler, K. S., Riley, B. P., & Webb, B. T. (2023). Case-only rare variant of severe alcohol dependence (AD) using a multivariate hierarchical gene clustering approach. PLOS ONE, 18(4), e0284805. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283985 

Gentry, A. E., Kirkpatrick, R. M., Peterson, R. E., & Webb, B. T. (2023). Missingness adapted group informed clustered (MAGIC)-LASSO: A novel paradigm for prediction in data with widespread non-random missingness. Frontiers in Genetics, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1162690

2022

Lancaster, E. E., Lapato, D. M., & Peterson, R. E. (2022). Understanding the genetics of peripartum depression: Research challenges, strategies, and opportunities. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, 1022188. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1022188

Savage, J. E., Peterson, R. E., Aliev, F., Spit for Science Working Group, & Dick, D. M. (2022). Genetic and environmental etiology of drinking motives in college students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 46(10), 1783–1796. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14930

Lencz, T., Sabatello, M., Docherty, A., Peterson, R. E., Soda, T., Austin, J., Bierut, L., Crepaz-Keay, D., Curtis, D., Degenhardt, F., Huckins, L., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Mattheisen, M., Meiser, B., Peay, H., Rietschel, M., Walss-Bass, C., & Davis, L. K. (2022). Concerns about the use of polygenic embryo screening for psychiatric and cognitive traits. The Lancet Psychiatry, 9(10), 838–844. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00157-2

Bigdeli, T. B., Voloudakis, G., Barr, P. B., Gorman, B. R., Genovese, G., Peterson, R. E., Burstein, D. E., Velicu, V. I., Li, Y., Gupta, R., Mattheisen, M., Tomasi, S., Rajeevan, N., Sayward, F., Radhakrishnan, K., Natarajan, S., Malhotra, A. K., Shi, Y., Zhao, H., … Fanous, A. H. (2022). Penetrance and pleiotropy of polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression among adults in the US Veterans Affairs Health Care System. JAMA Psychiatry, 79(11), 1092–1101. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.2742

Gillespie, N. A., Gentry, A. E., Kirkpatrick, R. M., Maes, H. H., Reynolds, C. A., Mathur, R., Kendler, K. S., Peterson, R. E., & Webb, B. T. (2022). Determining the stability of genome-wide factors in BMI between ages 40 to 69 years. PLOS Geneticshttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010303

Lancaster, E. E., Vladimirov, V. I., Riley, B. P., Landry, J. W., Roberson-Nay, R., & York, T. P. (2022). Large-scale integration of DNA methylation and gene expression array platforms identifies both cis and trans relationships. Epigenetics, 17(12), 1753–1773. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2022.2079293

Bountress, K. E., Brick, L. A., Sheerin, C., Grotzinger, A., Bustamante, D., Hawn, S. E., Gillespie, N., Kirkpatrick, R. M., Kranzler, H., Morey, R., Edenberg, H. J., Maihofer, A. X., Disner, S., Ashley-Koch, A., Peterson, R. E., Lori, A., Stein, D. J., Kimbrel, N., Nievergelt, C., … Amstadter, A. B. (2022). Genetic and environmental influences on PTSD and substance use disorders: Findings from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 234, 109430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109430

Schork, A. J., Peterson, R. E., Dahl, A., Cai, N., & Kendler, K. S. (2022). Indirect paths from genetics to education. Nature Genetics, 54(4), 372–373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00999-5

Jami, E. S., Hammerschlag, A. R., Ip, H. F., Allegrini, A. G., Benyamin, B., Border, R., Diemer, E. W., Jiang, C., Karhunen, V., Lu, Y., Lu, Q., Mallard, T. T., Mishra, P. P., Nolte, I. M., Palviainen, T., Peterson, R. E., Sallis, H. M., Shabalin, A. A., Tate, A. E., Thiering, E., … Middeldorp, C. M. (2022). Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(7), 934–945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.035

Hicks, T. A., Chartier, K. G., Buckley, T. D., Reese, D., Spit for Science Working Group, Vassileva, J., Dick, D. M., Amstadter, A. B., Peterson, R. E., & Moreno, O. (2022). Divergent changes: Abstinence and higher-frequency substance use increase among racial/ethnic minority young adults during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 48(1), 88–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2021.1995401

Epskamp, S., van der Maas, H. L. J., Peterson, R. E., van Loo, H. M., Aggen, S. H., & Kendler, K. S. (2022). Intermediate stable states in substance use. Addictive Behaviors, 129, 107252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107252

Jami, E. S., Hammerschlag, A. R., Ip, H. F., Allegrini, A. G., Benyamin, B., Border, R., Diemer, E. W., Jiang, C., Karhunen, V., Lu, Y., Lu, Q., Mallard, T. T., Mishra, P. P., Nolte, I. M., Palviainen, T., Peterson, R. E., Sallis, H. M., Shabalin, A. A., Tate, A. E., Thiering, E., … Middeldorp, C. M. (2022). Genome-wide Association Meta-analysis of Childhood and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(7), 934–945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.035

2021

Sheerin, C. M., Lancaster, E. E., York, T. P., Smalling, A., Walker, J., Danielson, C. K., & Amstadter, A. B. (2021). Epigenome-wide study of PTSD symptom severity in a treatment-seeking adolescent sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(3), 607–615. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22655

Cooke, M. E., Clifford, J. S., Do, E. K., Gilman, J. M., Maes, H. H., Peterson, R. E., ... & Spit for Science Working group. (2022). Polygenic score for cigarette smoking is associated with ever electronic‐cigarette use in a college‐aged sample. Addiction, 117(4), 1071-1078. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15716

Lancaster, E. E., Lapato, D. M., Jackson-Cook, C., Strauss, J. F., Roberson-Nay, R., & York, T. P. (2021). Maternal biological age assessed in early pregnancy is associated with gestational age at birth. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 15440. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94281-7

Giannakopoulou, O., Lin, K., Meng, X., Su, M. H., Kuo, P. H., Peterson, R. E., Awasthi, S., Moscati, A., Coleman, J. R. I., Bass, N., Millwood, I. Y., Chen, Y., Chen, Z., Chen, H. C., Lu, M. L., Huang, M. C., Chen, C. H., Stahl, E. A., Loos, R. J. F., Mullins, N., … 23andMe Research Team, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, & Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. (2021). The genetic architecture of depression in individuals of East Asian ancestry: A genome-wide association study. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(11), 1258–1269. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2099

Lapato, D. M., Wolf, H. M., Lancaster, E. E., Roberson-Nay, R., & York, T. P. (2021). A primer on DNA methylation and its potential to impact maternal depression risk and assessment during pregnancy and the postpartum. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 35(1), 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1097/JPN.0000000000000528

Peterson, R. E., Bigdeli, T. B., Ripke, S., Bacanu, S. A., Gejman, P. V., Levinson, D. F., Li, Q. S., Rujescu, D., Rietschel, M., Weinberger, D. R., Straub, R. E., Walters, J. T. R., Owen, M. J., O'Donovan, M. C., Mowry, B. J., Ophoff, R. A., Andreassen, O. A., Esko, T., Petryshen, T. L., Kendler, K. S., … Fanous, A. H. (2021). Genome-wide analyses of smoking behaviors in schizophrenia: Findings from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 137, 215–224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.02.027

Johnson, E. C., Kapoor, M., Hatoum, A. S., Zhou, H., Polimanti, R., Wendt, F. R., Walters, R. K., Lai, D., Kember, R. L., Hartz, S., Meyers, J. L., Peterson, R. E., Ripke, S., Bigdeli, T. B., Fanous, A. H., Pato, C. N., Pato, M. T., Goate, A. M., Kranzler, H. R., … Agrawal, A. (2021). Investigation of convergent and divergent genetic influences underlying schizophrenia and alcohol use disorder. Psychological Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172100266X

Peterson, R. E. (2021). The genetics of major depression: Perspectives on the state of research and opportunities for precision medicine. Psychiatric Annals, 51(4), 165–169. https://doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20210315-01

Martin, J., Khramtsova, E. A., Goleva, S. B., Peterson, R. E., Stranger, B. E., Davis, L. K., & Sex Differences Cross-Disorder Analysis Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. (2021). Examining sex-differentiated genetic effects across neuropsychiatric and behavioral traits. Biological Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.076042

Munn-Chernoff, M. A., Johnson, E. C., Chou, Y. L., Coleman, J. R. I., Thornton, L. M., Walters, R. K., Yilmaz, Z., Baker, J. H., Hübel, C., Gordon, S., Medland, S. E., Watson, H. J., Gaspar, H. A., Bryois, J., Hinney, A., Leppä, V. M., Mattheisen, M., Ripke, S., Yao, S., Giusti-Rodríguez, P., … Agrawal, A. (2021). Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies. Addiction Biology, 26(1), e12880. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12880

Ip, H. F., van der Laan, C. M., Krapohl, E. M. L., et al. (2021). Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age. Translational Psychiatry, 11, 413. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01480-x

Okusaga, O. O., Kember, R. L., Peloso, G. M., Peterson, R. E., Vujkovic, M., Mitchell, B. G., Bernard, J., Walder, A., & Bigdeli, T. B. (2021). History of suicide attempts and COVID-19 infection in veterans with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: Moderating effects of age and body mass index. Complex Psychiatry, 392(1–2), 1789–1795. https://doi.org/10.1159/000521230

2020

Johnson, E. C., Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Substance Use Disorders Workgroup, Davis, L. K., Bogdan, R., Gelernter, J., Edenberg, H. J., Stefansson, K., Børglum, A. D., & Agrawal, A. (2020). A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder. The Lancet Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30339-4

Polimanti, R., Walters, R. K., Johnson, E. C., McClintick, J. N., Adkins, A. E., Adkins, D. E., Bacanu, S. A., Bierut, L. J., Bigdeli, T. B., Brown, S., Bucholz, K. K., Copeland, W. E., Costello, E. J., Degenhardt, L., Farrer, L. A., Foroud, T. M., Fox, L., Goate, A. M., Grucza, R., … Gelernter, J. (2020). Leveraging genome-wide data to investigate differences between opioid use vs. opioid dependence in 41,176 individuals from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Molecular Psychiatry, 25(8), 1673–1687. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-0677-9

Coleman, J. R. I., Peyrot, W. J., Purves, K. L., Davis, K. A. S., Rayner, C., Choi, S. W., Hübel, C., Gaspar, H. A., Kan, C., Van der Auwera, S., Adams, M. J., Lyall, D. M., Choi, K. W., Dunn, E. C., Vassos, E., Danese, A., Maughan, B., Grabe, H. J., Lewis, C. M., … Breen, G. (2020). Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank. Molecular Psychiatry, 25(7), 1430–1446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0546-6

Roberson-Nay, R., Lapato, D. M., Wolen, A. R., et al. (2020). An epigenome-wide association study of early-onset major depression in monozygotic twins. Translational Psychiatry, 10, 301. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-00984-2

2019

Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. (2019). Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders. Cell, 179(7), 1469–1482.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.11.020

Peterson, R. E., Kuchenbaecker, K., Walters, R. K., Chen, C. Y., Popejoy, A. B., Periyasamy, S., Lam, M., Iyegbe, C., Strawbridge, R. J., Brick, L., Carey, C., Martin, A., Meyers, J. L., Su, J., Chen, J., Edwards, A. C., Kalungi, A., Koen, N., Majara, L., … Duncan, L. E. (2019). Invited primer: Genome-wide association studies in ancestrally diverse populations: Opportunities, methods, pitfalls, and recommendations. Cell, 179(3), 589–603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.051

Bigdeli, T. B., Genovese, G., Georgakopoulos, P., Meyers, J. L., Peterson, R. E., Iyegbe, C. O., Medeiros, H., Valderrama, J., Achtyes, E. D., Kotov, R., Stahl, E. A., Abbott, C., Azevedo, M. H., Belliveau, R. A., Bevilacqua, E., Bromet, E. J., Byerley, W., Carvalho, C. B., Chapman, S. B., … Pato, C. N. (2019). Contributions of common genetic variants to risk of schizophrenia among individuals of African and Latino ancestry. Molecular Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0517-y

Duncan, L., Shen, H., Gelaye, B., Meijsen, J., Ressler, K., Feldman, M., Peterson, R., & Domingue, B. (2019). Analysis of polygenic risk score usage and performance in diverse human populations. Nature Communications, 10, 3328. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11112-0

Lázaro-Muñoz, G., Sabatello, M., Huckins, L., Peay, H., Degenhardt, F., Meiser, B., Lencz, T., Soda, T., Docherty, A., Crepaz-Keay, D., Austin, J., Peterson, R. E., Davis, L. K., & ISPG Ethics Committee. (2019). International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Ethics Committee: Issues facing us. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.32736

Docherty, A. R., Moscati, A., Bigdeli, T. B., Edwards, A. C., Peterson, R. E., Adkins, D. E., Anderson, J. S., Flint, J., Kendler, K. S., & Bacanu, S. A. (2019). Pathway-based polygene risk for severe depression implicates drug metabolism in CONVERGE. Psychological Medicine, 49(11), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719000618

Polimanti, R., Peterson, R. E., Ong, J. S., MacGregor, S., Edwards, A. C., Clarke, T. K., Frank, J., Gerring, Z., Gillespie, N. A., Lind, P. A., Maes, H. H., Martin, N. G., Mbarek, H., Medland, S. E., Streit, F., Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Agrawal, A., Edenberg, H. J., Kendler, K. S., … Derks, E. M. (2019). Evidence of causal effect of major depression on alcohol dependence: Findings from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Psychological Medicine, 49(14), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719000667

2018

Walters, R. K., Polimanti, R., Johnson, E. C., McClintick, J. N., Adams, M. J., Adkins, A. E., Aliev, F., Bacanu, S. A., Batzler, A., Bertelsen, S., Biernacka, J. M., Bigdeli, T. B., Chen, L. S., Clarke, T. K., Chou, Y. L., Degenhardt, F., Docherty, A. R., Edwards, A. C., Fontanillas, P., Foo, J. C., … Agrawal, A. (2018). Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders. Nature Neuroscience, 21(12), 1656–1669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0275-1

Hawn, S. E., Sheerin, C. M., Webb, B. T., Peterson, R. E., Do, E. K., Dick, D., Kendler, K. S., Bacanu, S. A., & Amstadter, A. B. (2018). Replication of the interaction of PRKG1 and trauma exposure on alcohol misuse in an independent African American sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(6), 927–932. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22339

Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. (2018). Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression. Nature Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0090-3

Peterson, R. E., Cai, N., Dahl, A. W., Bigdeli, T. B., Edwards, A. C., Webb, B. T., Bacanu, S. A., Zaitlen, N., Flint, J., & Kendler, K. S. (2018). Molecular genetic analysis subdivided by adversity exposure suggests etiologic heterogeneity in major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17060621

2017

Docherty, A. R., Moscati, A., Dick, D., Savage, J. E., Salvatore, J. E., Cooke, M., Aliev, F., Moore, A. A., Edwards, A. C., Riley, B. P., Adkins, D. E., Peterson, R., Webb, B. T., Bacanu, S. A., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). Polygenic prediction of the phenome, across ancestry, in emerging adulthood. Psychological Medicine, 47(16), 2735–2743. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717003312

van Loo, H. M., Van Borkulo, C. D., Peterson, R. E., Fried, E. I., Aggen, S. H., Borsboom, D., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). Robust symptom networks in recurrent major depression across different levels of genetic and environmental risk. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 313–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.10.038

Peterson, R. E. (2017). Leveraging molecular genetic approaches to yield insights into major depression etiology and clinical presentation. JAMA Psychiatry, 74(11), 1093–1094. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.3017

Edwards, A. C., Docherty, A. R., Moscati, A., Bigdeli, T. B., Peterson, R. E., Webb, B. T., Bacanu, S. A., Hettema, J. M., Flint, J., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). Polygenic risk for severe psychopathology among Europeans is associated with major depressive disorder in Han Chinese women. Psychological Medicine, 48(5), 777–784. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717002148 

Peterson, R. E., Edwards, A. C., Bacanu, S. A., Dick, D. M., Kendler, K. S., & Webb, B. T. (2017). The utility of empirically assigning ancestry groups in cross-population genetic studies of addiction. American Journal of Addiction, 26(5), 494–501.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.12586

Bigdeli, T. B., Ripke, S., Peterson, R. E., Webb, B. T., Weissman, M. M., Wellmann, J., Willemsen, G., Witt, S. H., Levinson, D. F., Lewis, C. M., Wray, N. R., Flint, J., Sullivan, P. F., & Kendler, K. S. on behalf of the CONVERGE consortium and Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. (2017). Genetic effects influencing risk for major depressive disorder in China and Europe. Translational Psychiatry, 7, e1074. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.292

Peterson, R. E., Cai, N., Bigdeli, T. B., Li, Y., Reimers, M., Nikulova, A., Webb, B. T., Bacanu, S. A., Riley, B. P., Flint, J., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). The genetic architecture of major depressive disorder in Han Chinese women. JAMA Psychiatry, 74(2), 162–168. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.3578

Clark, S. L., McClay, J. L., Adkins, D. E., Kumar, G., Aberg, K. A., Nerella, S., Xie, L., Collins, A. L., Crowley, J. J., Quackenbush, C. R., Hilliard, C. E., Shabalin, A. A., Vrieze, S. I., Peterson, R. E., Copeland, W. E., Silberg, J. L., McGue, M., Maes, H., Iacono, W. G., … van den Oord, E. J. (2017). Deep sequencing of 71 candidate genes to characterize variation associated with alcohol dependence. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13352

Docherty, A. R., Edwards, A. C., Yang, F., Peterson, R. E., Sawyers, C., Adkins, D. E., Moore, A. A., Webb, B. T., Bacanu, S. A., Flint, J., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). Age of onset and family history as indicators of polygenic risk for major depression. Depression and Anxiety, 34(5), 446–452. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22607

2016

Docherty, A. R., Moscati, A., Peterson, R., Edwards, A. C., Adkins, D. E., Bacanu, S. A., Bigdeli, T. B., Webb, B. T., Flint, J., & Kendler, K. S. (2016). SNP-based heritability estimates of the personality dimensions and polygenic prediction of both neuroticism and major depression: Findings from CONVERGE. Translational Psychiatry, 6(10), e926. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.177

Edwards, A. E., Aggen, S. E., Cai, N., Bigdeli, T. B., Peterson, R. E., CONVERGE Consortium, Flint, J., & Kendler, K. S. (2016). Chronicity of depression and molecular markers in a large sample of Chinese women. Depression and Anxiety, 33(11), 1048–1054.. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22517

2015

CONVERGE Consortium. (2015). Sparse whole-genome sequencing identifies two loci for major depressive disorder. Nature, 523(7562), 588–591. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14659

2014

Peterson, R. E., Maes, H. H., Lin, P., Kramer, J. R., Hesselbrock, V. M., Bauer, L. O., Nurnberger, J. I. Jr., Edenberg, H. J., Dick, D. M., & Webb, B. T. (2014). On the association of common and rare genetic variation influencing body mass index: A combined SNP and CNV analysis. BMC Genomics, 15, 368. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-368

2012

Peterson, R. E., Latendresse, S. J., Bartholome, L. T., Warren, C. S., & Raymond, N. C. (2012). Binge eating disorder mediates links between symptoms of depression, anxiety, and caloric intake in overweight and obese women. Journal of Obesity, 2012, 407103. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/407103

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