• A burden of rare copy number variants in obsessive-compulsive disorder 

      Halvorsen, Matthew W.; de Schipper, Elles; Bäckman, Julia; Strom, Nora I.; Hagen, Kristen; Zayats, Tetyana; Eide, Thorstein Olsen; Noh, Hyun Ji; Morrill, Kathleen; Lichtenstein, Paul; Kähler, Anna Katarina; Höffler, Kira Daniela; Djurfeldt, Diana R.; Chen, Long Long; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Wallert, John; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Fundín, Bengt; Landén, Mikael; Kvale, Gerd; Hansen, Bjarne Kristian Aaslie; Haavik, Jan; Mattheisen, Manuel; Rück, Christian; Mataix-Cols, David; Crowley, James J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Current genetic research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) supports contributions to risk specifically from common single nucleotide variants (SNVs), along with rare coding SNVs and small insertion-deletions (indels). ...
    • Eating disorders, pregnancy, and the postpartum period: findings from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) 

      Watson, Hunna J.; Torgersen, Leila; Zerwas, Stephanie; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; Knoph, Cecilie; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Siega-Riz, Anna Maria; Von Holle, Ann; Hamer, Robert M.; Meltzer, Helle Margrete; Ferguson, Elizabeth H.; Haugen, Margaretha; Magnus, Per; Kuhns, Rebecca; Bulik, Cynthia M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      This review summarizes studies on eating disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum period that have been conducted as part of the broader Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). Prior to the 2000s, empirical ...
    • Genome-wide analysis of anorexia nervosa and major psychiatric disorders and related traits reveals genetic overlap and identifies novel risk loci for anorexia nervosa 

      Bang, Lasse; Bahrami, Shahram; Hindley, Guy; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Rødevand, Linn; Jaholkowski, Piotr Pawel; Shadrin, Alexey; O'Connell, Kevin Sean; Frei, Oleksandr; Lin, Aihua; Rahman, Zillur; Cheng, Weiqiu; Parker, Nadine; Fan, Chun C.; Dale, Anders M.; Djurovic, Srdjan; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Andreassen, Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a heritable eating disorder (50–60%) with an array of commonly comorbid psychiatric disorders and related traits. Although significant genetic correlations between AN and psychiatric disorders and ...
    • Shared familial risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and psychiatric disorders: A nationwide multigenerational genetics study 

      Wimberley, Theresa; Brikell, Margareta Isabell; Astrup, Aske; Larsen, Janne T.; Petersen, Liselotte V.; Albiñana, Clara; Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J.; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Chang, Zheng; Fanelli, Giuseppe; Bralten, Janita; Mota, Nina R.; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Fernandez-Aranda, Fernando; Bulló, Monica; Franke, Barbara; Børglum, Anders; Mortensen, Preben B.; Horsdal, Henriette T.; Dalsgaard, Søren (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Background Psychiatric disorders and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are heritable, polygenic, and often comorbid conditions, yet knowledge about their potential shared familial risk is lacking. We used family designs ...