Pamela Sklar
Broad Institute
Pamela Sklar was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist. She was Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, and genetic and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She was also chief of the Division of Psychiatric Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sklar is known for her large-scale gene discovery studies in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and for making some of the first statistically
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Pamela Sklar was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist. She was Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, and genetic and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She was also chief of the Division of Psychiatric Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sklar is known for her large-scale gene discovery studies in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and for making some of the first statistically meaningful gene identifications in both mental illnesses.
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Broad Institute
Top Publications
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses (2007) - 36,976 citations
- Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci (2014) - 8,206 citations
- 10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation (2017) - 4,205 citations
- Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci (2011) - 1,979 citations
- Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4 (2011) - 1,421 citations
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- Pamela Sklar
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- https://openalex.org/A5113577680
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- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
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- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses ↗2007 · The American Journal of Human Genetics36,976OpenAlex citations
- 8,206OpenAlex citations
- 10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation ↗2017 · The American Journal of Human Genetics4,205OpenAlex citations
- Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci ↗2011 · Nature Genetics1,979OpenAlex citations
- 1,421OpenAlex citations
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- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses ↗2007 · The American Journal of Human Genetics
- 10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation ↗2017 · The American Journal of Human Genetics
- Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci ↗2011 · Nature Genetics
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