Neil Risch

Research interests

Publications

• A brief history of human disease genetics

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1879-7

• Single-trait and multi-trait genome-wide association analyses identify novel loci for blood pressure in African-ancestry populations

  PLoS Genetics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006728

• Common variants in P2RY11 are associated with narcolepsy

  Nature Genetics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.734

• Narcolepsy is strongly associated with the T-cell receptor alpha locus

  Nature Genetics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.372

• Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression

  JAMA · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.878

• Population stratification confounds genetic association studies among Latinos

  Human Genetics · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-005-0071-3

• Genetic admixture and asthma‐related phenotypes in Mexican American and Puerto Rican asthmatics

  Genetic Epidemiology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1002/gepi.20079

• Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1086/427888

• Latino Populations: A Unique Opportunity for the Study of Race, Genetics, and Social Environment in Epidemiological Research

  American Journal of Public Health · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2005.068668

• Discovering genotypes underlying human phenotypes: past successes for mendelian disease, future approaches for complex disease

  Nature Genetics · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1090

• The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb025007

• A Highly Significant Association between a COMT Haplotype and Schizophrenia

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1086/344514

• Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease.

  Genome biology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2002-3-7-comment2007

• Searching for genetic determinants in the new millennium

  Nature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35015718

• The DYT1 phenotype and guidelines for diagnostic testing

  Neurology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.54.9.1746

• Idiopathic torsion dystonia linked to chromosome 8 in two mennonite families

  Annals of Neurology · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410420421

• The early-onset torsion dystonia gene (DYT1) encodes an ATP-binding protein

  Nature Genetics · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0997-40

• The Future of Genetic Studies of Complex Human Diseases

  Science · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5281.1516

• A novel MHC class I–like gene is mutated in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis

  Nature Genetics · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0896-399

• Evaluation of a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia on chromosome 6p by multipoint affected sib–pair linkage analysis

  Nature Genetics · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1195-325

• Protective effect of apolipoprotein E type 2 allele for late onset Alzheimer disease

  Nature Genetics · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0694-180

• Dystonia in Ashkenazi Jews: Clinical characterization of a founder mutation

  Annals of Neurology · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410360514

• Diminished support for linkage between manic depressive illness and X–chromosome markers in three Israeli pedigrees

  Nature Genetics · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0193-49

• Idiopathic dystonia among ashkenazi jews: Evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance

  Annals of Neurology · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410260505

• Human gene for torsion dystonia located on chromosome 9q32-q34

  Neuron · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0896-6273(89)90188-8

• Genetic linkage between X-chromosome markers and bipolar affective illness

  Nature · 1987 · https://doi.org/10.1038/326289a0

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