Pamela Sklar

77.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
80 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Pamela Sklar is a scholar working on Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pamela Sklar has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Genetics, 29 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Pamela Sklar's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (20 papers) and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (19 papers). Pamela Sklar is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (20 papers) and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (19 papers). Pamela Sklar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Pamela Sklar's co-authors include Jordan W. Smoller, Roy H. Perlis, Stephen V. Faraone, Alysa E. Doyle, Nick Craddock, Solomon H. Snyder, Robert R. H. Anholt, Shaun Purcell, Eric S. Lander and David Altshuler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Pamela Sklar

78 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Molecular Genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

2005 1.7k citations Stephen V. Faraone, Roy H. Perlis et al. profile →
Characterization of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in coding regions of human genes

1999 1.3k citations Pamela Sklar et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation

2014 774 citations Pamela Sklar, Joseph D. Buxbaum et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Assessing the impact of population stratification on genetic association studies

2004 546 citations Jordan W. Smoller, Tracey L. Petryshen et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Genetics of bipolar disorder

2013 396 citations Nick Craddock, Pamela Sklar The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pamela Sklar United States	44	3.7k	3.4k	2.8k	1.9k	1.4k	80	9.9k
Antonio M. Persico Italy	52	3.0k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	3.7k 1.9×	2.4k 1.8×	166	9.0k
Margit Burmeister United States	44	1.8k 0.5×	3.6k 1.0×	734 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.5×	178	8.7k
Frank A. Middleton United States	49	1.3k 0.4×	3.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	3.9k 2.0×	2.6k 1.9×	156	12.2k
Roel A. Ophoff Netherlands	51	2.4k 0.7×	4.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	166	9.6k
Cheryl A. Frye United States	70	4.5k 1.2×	3.8k 1.1×	941 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	3.5k 2.6×	276	18.6k
Nigel Williams United Kingdom	49	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	246	8.3k
Margaret L. Bauman United States	43	3.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	5.3k 2.8×	791 0.6×	67	7.7k
Douglas Blackwood United Kingdom	51	2.5k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	166	8.6k
Ryota Hashimoto Japan	52	1.9k 0.5×	3.2k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	2.6k 1.9×	314	10.0k
Thomas M. Hyde United States	65	3.0k 0.8×	6.3k 1.8×	2.5k 0.9×	3.1k 1.6×	3.9k 2.8×	258	15.0k

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Burdick, Katherine E., M. Mercedes Pérez-Rodríguez, Rebecca Birnbaum, et al.. (2020). A molecular approach to treating cognition in schizophrenia by calcium channel blockade. Schizophrenia Research Cognition. 21. 100180–100180. 3 indexed citations

Breen, Michael S., Amanda Dobbyn, Qin Li, et al.. (2019). Global landscape and genetic regulation of RNA editing in cortical samples from individuals with schizophrenia. Nature Neuroscience. 22(9). 1402–1412. 65 indexed citations

Raj, Towfique, Yang Li, Garrett Wong, et al.. (2018). Integrative transcriptome analyses of the aging brain implicate altered splicing in Alzheimer’s disease susceptibility. Nature Genetics. 50(11). 1584–1592. 261 indexed citations

Genovese, Giulio, Menachem Fromer, Eli A. Stahl, et al.. (2016). Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia. Nature Neuroscience. 19(11). 1433–1441. 276 indexed citations

Breen, Gerome, Qingqin S. Li, Bryan L. Roth, et al.. (2016). Translating genome-wide association findings into new therapeutics for psychiatry. Nature Neuroscience. 19(11). 1392–1396. 73 indexed citations

Ruderfer, Douglas M., Alexander W. Charney, Ben Readhead, et al.. (2016). Polygenic overlap between schizophrenia risk and antipsychotic response: a genomic medicine approach. The Lancet Psychiatry. 3(4). 350–357. 90 indexed citations

Ramos, Eliana Marisa, Tammy Gillis, Jayalakshmi Srinidhi Mysore, et al.. (2015). Prevalence of Huntington's disease gene CAG trinucleotide repeat alleles in patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 17(4). 403–408. 7 indexed citations

Durak, Omer, Froylán Calderón de Anda, Karun K. Singh, et al.. (2014). Ankyrin-G regulates neurogenesis and Wnt signaling by altering the subcellular localization of β-catenin. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 21 indexed citations

Craddock, Nick & Pamela Sklar. (2013). Genetics of bipolar disorder. The Lancet. 381(9878). 1654–1662. 396 indexed citations breakdown →

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Szatkiewicz, Jin, Benjamin M. Neale, Menachem Fromer, et al.. (2013). Detecting large copy number variants using exome genotyping arrays in a large Swedish schizophrenia sample. Molecular Psychiatry. 18(11). 1178–1184. 21 indexed citations

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McGrath, Lauren M., Marilyn C. Cornelis, Phil H. Lee, et al.. (2013). Genetic predictors of risk and resilience in psychiatric disorders: A cross‐disorder genome‐wide association study of functional impairment in major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 162(8). 779–788. 34 indexed citations

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Ostacher, Michael J., et al.. (2013). Pilot investigation of isradipine in the treatment of bipolar depression motivated by genome‐wide association. Bipolar Disorders. 16(2). 199–203. 41 indexed citations

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Rueckert, Erroll H., Douglas Barker, Douglas M. Ruderfer, et al.. (2012). Cis-acting regulation of brain-specific ANK3 gene expression by a genetic variant associated with bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 18(8). 922–929. 69 indexed citations

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Perlis, Roy H., Enda M. Byrne, Erroll H. Rueckert, et al.. (2012). Multi-locus genome-wide association analysis supports the role of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the etiology of major depressive disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 2(11). e184–e184. 64 indexed citations

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Huang, Jie, Roy H. Perlis, Sang Hyuck Lee, et al.. (2010). Cross-Disorder Genomewide Analysis of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Depression. American Journal of Psychiatry. 167(10). 1254–1263. 148 indexed citations

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Craddock, Nick & Pamela Sklar. (2009). Genetics of bipolar disorder: successful start to a long journey. Trends in Genetics. 25(2). 99–105. 112 indexed citations

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Perlis, Roy H., Jordan W. Smoller, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, et al.. (2009). A Genomewide Association Study of Response to Lithium for Prevention of Recurrence in Bipolar Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 166(6). 718–725. 105 indexed citations

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Biederman, Joseph, Jesen Fagerness, Alysa E. Doyle, et al.. (2007). Investigation of variation in SNAP‐25 and ADHD and relationship to co‐morbid major depressive disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 144B(6). 781–790. 56 indexed citations

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Weiss, Lauren A., Shaun Purcell, Kate Lawrence, et al.. (2006). Identification of EFHC2 as a quantitative trait locus for fear recognition in Turner syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 16(1). 107–113. 25 indexed citations

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Petryshen, Tracey L., Andrew Kirby, Ronald P. Hammer, et al.. (2005). Two Quantitative Trait Loci for Prepulse Inhibition of Startle Identified on Mouse Chromosome 16 Using Chromosome Substitution Strains. Genetics. 171(4). 1895–1904. 30 indexed citations

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