Area of research
Molecular Biology · Behavioral Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Biology, Gene, Neuroscience, Psychology, Human brain, and DNA methylation.
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference
Epigenome-wide association studies identify novel DNA methylation sites associated with PTSD: a meta-analysis of 23 military and civilian cohorts
A Mendelian randomization study of genetic liability to post-traumatic stress disorder and risk of ischemic stroke
Heterogeneous Mediation Analysis on Epigenomic PTSD and Traumatic Stress in a Predominantly African American Cohort
Neighborhood environment, social cohesion, and epigenetic aging
Leukocyte Methylomic Imprints of Exposure to the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: a Pilot Epigenome-Wide Analysis
The impact of psychopathology, social adversity and stress-relevant DNA methylation on prospective risk for post-traumatic stress: A machine learning approach
Epigenetic predictors of all-cause mortality are associated with objective measures of neighborhood disadvantage in an urban population
Advancing human health in the decade ahead: pregnancy as a key window for discovery
The association between residential proximity to brownfield sites and high-traffic areas and measures of immunity
Epigenetic Meta-Analysis Across Three Civilian Cohorts Identifies <i>NRG1</i> and <i>HGS</i> as Blood-Based Biomarkers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Largest GWAS of PTSD (N=20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability
The core transcriptome of mammalian placentas and the divergence of expression with placental shape
Divergent lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme profile in cellular compartments of primate forebrain structures
Glucocorticoid receptor DNA methylation, childhood maltreatment and major depression
PTSD is associated with an increase in aged T cell phenotypes in adults living in Detroit
DICER1 and microRNA regulation in post-traumatic stress disorder with comorbid depression
An analysis of gene expression in PTSD implicates genes involved in the glucocorticoid receptor pathway and neural responses to stress
Frequency of alcohol consumption in humans; the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors and downstream signaling pathways
High‐throughput RNA sequencing reveals structural differences of orthologous brain‐expressed genes between western lowland gorillas and humans
Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development
Genome-wide adaptive complexes to underground stresses in blind mole rats Spalax
Reply to Skoyles: Decline in growth rate, not muscle mass, predicts the human childhood peak in brain metabolism
Synaptogenesis and development of pyramidal neuron dendritic morphology in the chimpanzee neocortex resembles humans
Evolutionary genetics and implications of small size and twinning in callitrichine primates
Developmental Changes in the Transcriptome of Human Cerebral Cortex Tissue: Long Noncoding RNA Transcripts
Characterization of human cortical gene expression in relation to glucose utilization
Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution
A genome-wide association study of post-traumatic stress disorder identifies the retinoid-related orphan receptor alpha (RORA) gene as a significant risk locus
Dynamic Gene Expression in the Human Cerebral Cortex Distinguishes Children from Adults