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Ditte Demontis

Lektor i medicinsk genetik, Biomedicin, Aarhus Univeristet
Verified email at hum-gen.au.dk
Cited by 26229

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

…, L De Haan, F Degenhardt, LE DeLisi, D Demontis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80% 1 , 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 …

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

…, C Churchhouse, K Dellenvall, D Demontis… - 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 variants …

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

…, C Churchhouse, S Dalsgaard, D Demontis - 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 …

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

…, J Del Favero, LE DeLisi, D Demontis… - 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 …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

…, B Cormand, J Crosbie, S Dalsgaard, D Demontis… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting
substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these …

[PDF][PDF] Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

…, J Del Favero, LE DeLisi, D Demontis… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to trait …

[HTML][HTML] Role of DNA methylation in mediating genetic risk of psychiatric disorders

A Starnawska, D Demontis - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Psychiatric disorders are common, complex, and heritable conditions estimated to be the
leading cause of disability worldwide. The last decade of research in genomics of psychiatry, …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic dissection of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, including 28 subphenotypes

…, J Del Favero, LE DeLisi, P Deloukas, D Demontis… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two distinct diagnoses that share symptomology.
Understanding the genetic factors contributing to the shared and disorder-specific symptoms …

[HTML][HTML] A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

EC Johnson, D Demontis, TE Thorgeirsson… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Variation in liability to cannabis use disorder has a strong genetic component (estimated
twin and family heritability about 50–70%) and is associated with negative …