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Peter Holmans

Cardiff University · GB
Area of research
Genetics · Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
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131
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122,811
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628
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Recent publications

Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder
Nature 2025cited by 144position: middledoi
Machine learning in Alzheimer’s disease genetics
Nature Communications 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
Schizophrenia-associated somatic copy-number variants from 12,834 cases reveal recurrent NRXN1 and ABCB11 disruptions
Cell Genomics 2023cited by 43position: middledoi
New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 2,415position: middledoi
Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia
JAMA Psychiatry 2022cited by 105position: middledoi
Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology
Nature Genetics 2021cited by 1,563position: middledoi
Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson’s disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome
Nature Communications 2021cited by 213position: middledoi
A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts
Biological Psychiatry 2021cited by 202position: middledoi
Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders
Biological Psychiatry 2021cited by 136position: middledoi
Schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders and developmental disorders share specific disruptive coding mutations
Nature Communications 2021cited by 98position: middledoi
Genetic contributors to risk of schizophrenia in the presence of a 22q11.2 deletion
Molecular Psychiatry 2020cited by 135position: middledoi
New insights on the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s and related dementia
medRxiv 2020cited by 90position: middledoi
Dystonia genes functionally converge in specific neurons and share neurobiology with psychiatric disorders
Brain 2020cited by 65position: middledoi
Regulatory sites for splicing in human basal ganglia are enriched for disease-relevant information
Nature Communications 2020cited by 37position: middledoi
Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder
Nature Genetics 2019cited by 1,619position: middledoi
Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations
Nature Genetics 2019cited by 701position: middledoi
The Genetics of the Mood Disorder Spectrum: Genome-wide Association Analyses of More Than 185,000 Cases and 439,000 Controls
Biological Psychiatry 2019cited by 209position: middledoi
MSH3 modifies somatic instability and disease severity in Huntington’s and myotonic dystrophy type 1
Brain 2019cited by 164position: middledoi
Association of Genetic Liability to Psychotic Experiences With Neuropsychotic Disorders and Traits
JAMA Psychiatry 2019cited by 163position: middledoi
Mitochondria function associated genes contribute to Parkinson’s Disease risk and later age at onset
npj Parkinson s Disease 2019cited by 161position: middledoi
The Relationship Between Polygenic Risk Scores and Cognition in Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2019cited by 112position: middledoi
Moving beyond neurons: the role of cell type-specific gene regulation in Parkinson’s disease heritability
npj Parkinson s Disease 2019cited by 111position: middledoi
Novel Insight Into the Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder Gained by Integrating Expression Data With Genome-wide Association Statistics
Biological Psychiatry 2019cited by 96position: middledoi
A transcriptome-wide association study implicates specific pre- and post-synaptic abnormalities in schizophrenia
Human Molecular Genetics 2019cited by 73position: middledoi
A polygenic resilience score moderates the genetic risk for schizophrenia
Molecular Psychiatry 2019cited by 63position: middledoi
Bipolar multiplex families have an increased burden of common risk variants for psychiatric disorders
Molecular Psychiatry 2019cited by 47position: middledoi
Genetic Risk Underlying Psychiatric and Cognitive Symptoms in Huntington’s Disease
Biological Psychiatry 2019cited by 45position: lastdoi
Low-frequency variation in TP53 has large effects on head circumference and intracranial volume
Nature Communications 2019cited by 40position: middledoi
Gene-based analysis in HRC imputed genome wide association data identifies three novel genes for Alzheimer’s disease
PLoS ONE 2019cited by 31position: middledoi
Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection
Nature Genetics 2018cited by 1,714position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Michael O‘Donovan · Kobe University6 papers (2013–2021)Michael J. Owen · Cardiff University5 papers (2016–2021)Antonio F. Pardiñas · Cardiff University4 papers (2016–2019)Elliott Rees · Cardiff University4 papers (2016–2021)Andrew Pocklington · Cardiff University4 papers (2014–2019)James Walters · National Art Gallery of Namibia4 papers (2016–2021)James F. Gusella · Harvard University3 papers (2015–2017)George Kirov · Cardiff University3 papers (2016–2021)Lesley Jones · Cardiff University3 papers (2015–2017) · 3 papers (2015–2017)Jong‐Min Lee · Broad Institute3 papers (2015–2017)Marcy E. MacDonald · Broad Institute3 papers (2015–2017)Richard H. Myers · Boston University3 papers (2015–2017)Denise Harold · Dublin City University3 papers (2015–2017)Valentina Escott‐Price · UK Dementia Research Institute3 papers (2016–2019)Lynsey S. Hall · University of Edinburgh2 papers (2019–2019)Ming T. Tsuang · University of San Diego2 papers (2019–2021)Sophie E. Legge · Technical University of Munich2 papers (2016–2019)Vanessa C. Wheeler · California Institute for Regenerative Medicine2 papers (2017–2017)Stephen J. Glatt · SUNY Upstate Medical University2 papers (2019–2021)