Dr. Shaun Purcell

Shaun Purcell, Ph.D.

617-525-8039
Harvard Catalyst Profile
Harvard Title

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Other Affiliations

Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Senior Associate, Broad Institute, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

Address

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dept. of Psychiatry, Rm 394
221 Longwood Ave  
Boston MA 02115

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Using XHMM Software to Detect Copy Number Variation in Whole-Exome Sequencing Data.
Authors: Fromer M, Purcell SM.
Curr Protoc Hum Genet
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Genetic modifiers and subtypes in schizophrenia: investigations of age at onset, severity, sex and family history.
Authors: Bergen SE, O'Dushlaine CT, Lee PH, Fanous AH, Ruderfer DM, Ripke S, Sullivan PF, Smoller JW, Purcell SM, Corvin A.
Schizophr Res
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A polygenic burden of rare disruptive mutations in schizophrenia.
Authors: Purcell SM, Moran JL, Fromer M, Ruderfer D, Solovieff N, Roussos P, O'Dushlaine C, Chambert K, Bergen SE, Kähler A, Duncan L, Stahl E, Genovese G, Fernández E, Collins MO, Komiyama NH, Choudhary JS, Magnusson PK, Banks E, Shakir K, Garimella K, Fennell T, DePristo M, Grant SG, Haggarty SJ, Gabriel S, Scolnick EM, Lander ES, Hultman CM, Sullivan PF, McCarroll SA, Sklar P.
Nature
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De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks.
Authors: Fromer M, Pocklington AJ, Kavanagh DH, Williams HJ, Dwyer S, Gormley P, Georgieva L, Rees E, Palta P, Ruderfer DM, Carrera N, Humphreys I, Johnson JS, Roussos P, Barker DD, Banks E, Milanova V, Grant SG, Hannon E, Rose SA, Chambert K, Mahajan M, Scolnick EM, Moran JL, Kirov G, Palotie A, McCarroll SA, Holmans P, Sklar P, Owen MJ, Purcell SM, O'Donovan MC.
Nature
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Genome-wide association study implicates a novel RNA gene, the lincRNA AC068718.1, as a risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder in women.
Authors: Guffanti G, Galea S, Yan L, Roberts AL, Solovieff N, Aiello AE, Smoller JW, De Vivo I, Ranu H, Uddin M, Wildman DE, Purcell S, Koenen KC.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Replication of bipolar disorder susceptibility alleles and identification of two novel genome-wide significant associations in a new bipolar disorder case-control sample.
Authors: Green EK, Hamshere M, Forty L, Gordon-Smith K, Fraser C, Russell E, Grozeva D, Kirov G, Holmans P, Moran JL, Purcell S, Sklar P, Owen MJ, O'Donovan MC, Jones L, Jones IR, Craddock N.
Mol Psychiatry
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A genome wide survey supports the involvement of large copy number variants in schizophrenia with and without intellectual disability.
Authors: Derks EM, Ayub M, Chambert K, Del Favero J, Johnstone M, MacGregor S, Maclean A, McKechanie AG, McRae AF, Moran JL, Pickard BS, Purcell S, Sklar P, StClair DM, Wray NR, Visscher PM, Blackwood DH.

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Detecting large copy number variants using exome genotyping arrays in a large Swedish schizophrenia sample.
Authors: Szatkiewicz JP, Neale BM, O'Dushlaine C, Fromer M, Goldstein JI, Moran JL, Chambert K, Kähler A, Magnusson PK, Hultman CM, Sklar P, Purcell S, McCarroll SA, Sullivan PF.
Mol Psychiatry
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Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia.
Authors: Ripke S, O'Dushlaine C, Chambert K, Moran JL, Kähler AK, Akterin S, Bergen SE, Collins AL, Crowley JJ, Fromer M, Kim Y, Lee SH, Magnusson PK, Sanchez N, Stahl EA, Williams S, Wray NR, Xia K, Bettella F, Borglum AD, Bulik-Sullivan BK, Cormican P, Craddock N, de Leeuw C, Durmishi N, Gill M, Golimbet V, Hamshere ML, Holmans P, Hougaard DM, Kendler KS, Lin K, Morris DW, Mors O, Mortensen PB, Neale BM, O'Neill FA, Owen MJ, Milovancevic MP, Posthuma D, Powell J, Richards AL, Riley BP, Ruderfer D, Rujescu D, Sigurdsson E, Silagadze T, Smit AB, Stefansson H, Steinberg S, Suvisaari J, Tosato S, Verhage M, Walters JT, Levinson DF, Gejman PV, Kendler KS, Laurent C, Mowry BJ, O'Donovan MC, Owen MJ, Pulver AE, Riley BP, Schwab SG, Wildenauer DB, Dudbridge F, Holmans P, Shi J, Albus M, Alexander M, Campion D, Cohen D, Dikeos D, Duan J, Eichhammer P, Godard S, Hansen M, Lerer FB, Liang KY, Maier W, Mallet J, Nertney DA, Nestadt G, Norton N, O'Neill FA, Papadimitriou GN, Ribble R, Sanders AR, Silverman JM, Walsh D, Williams NM, Wormley B, Arranz MJ, Bakker S, Bender S, Bramon E, Collier D, Crespo-Facorro B, Hall J, Iyegbe C, Jablensky A, Kahn RS, Kalaydjieva L, Lawrie S, Lewis CM, Lin K, Linszen DH, Mata I, McIntosh A, Murray RM, Ophoff RA, Powell J, Rujescu D, Van Os J, Walshe M, Weisbrod M, Wiersma D, Donnelly P, Barroso I, Blackwell JM, Bramon E, Brown MA, Casas JP, Corvin AP, Deloukas P, Duncanson A, Jankowski J, Markus HS, Mathew CG, Palmer CN, Plomin R, Rautanen A, Sawcer SJ, Trembath RC, Viswanathan AC, Wood NW, Spencer CC, Band G, Bellenguez C, Freeman C, Hellenthal G, Giannoulatou E, Pirinen M, Pearson RD, Strange A, Su Z, Vukcevic D, Donnelly P, Langford C, Hunt SE, Edkins S, Gwilliam R, Blackburn H, Bumpstead SJ, Dronov S, Gillman M, Gray E, Hammond N, Jayakumar A, McCann OT, Liddle J, Potter SC, Ravindrarajah R, Ricketts M, Tashakkori-Ghanbaria A, Waller MJ, Weston P, Widaa S, Whittaker P, Barroso I, Deloukas P, Mathew CG, Blackwell JM, Brown MA, Corvin AP, McCarthy MI, Spencer CC, Bramon E, Corvin AP, O'Donovan MC, Stefansson K, Scolnick E, Purcell S, McCarroll SA, Sklar P, Hultman CM, Sullivan PF.
Nat Genet
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Additive genetic variation in schizophrenia risk is shared by populations of African and European descent.
Authors: de Candia TR, Lee SH, Yang J, Browning BL, Gejman PV, Levinson DF, Mowry BJ, Hewitt JK, Goddard ME, O'Donovan MC, Purcell SM, Posthuma D, Visscher PM, Wray NR, Keller MC.
Am J Hum Genet
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