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Peter McGuffin

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Genetics, King's College London
Verified email at kcl.ac.uk
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Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

…, J Marchini, H Mbarek, P McGrath, P McGuffin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder

…, A Farmer, D Curtis, EM Scolnick, P McGuffin… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
To identify susceptibility loci for bipolar disorder, we tested 1.8 million variants in 4,387 cases
and 6,209 controls and identified a region of strong association (rs10994336, P = 9.1 × 10 −…

The heritability of bipolar affective disorder and the genetic relationship to unipolar depression

P McGuffin, F Rijsdijk, M Andrew, P Sham… - Archives of general …, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Background Twin studies of bipolar affective disorder (BPD) have either been small or have
not used explicit diagnostic criteria. There has been little use of genetic model fitting and no …

The genetic basis of complex human behaviors

R Plomin, MJ Owen, P McGuffin - Science, 1994 - science.org
Quantitative genetic research has built a strong case for the importance of genetic factors in
many complex behavioral disorders and dimensions in the domains of psychopathology, …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

…, SA McCarroll, NW McGregor, P McGuffin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-wide
association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

…, W Maier, L Martinsson, S McCarroll, P McGuffin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, …

A polydiagnostic application of operational criteria in studies of psychotic illness: development and reliability of the OPCRIT system

P McGuffin, A Farmer, I Harvey - Archives of general psychiatry, 1991 - jamanetwork.com
• An operational criteria checklist for psychotic illness and computer programs designed to
be used in conjunction with it constitute the OPCRIT system. This provides a simple and …

Heritability estimates for psychotic disorders: the Maudsley twin psychosis series

…, II Gottesman, AE Farmer, P McGuffin… - Archives of general …, 1999 - jamanetwork.com
Background Previous twin studies have supported a genetic contribution to the major categories
of psychotic disorders, but few of these have employed operational diagnostic criteria, …

Gene–environment interaction analysis of serotonin system markers with adolescent depression

…, A Corsico, AM Gregory, P Sham, P McGuffin… - Molecular …, 2004 - nature.com
We report analyses from a study of gene–environment interaction in adolescent depression.
The sample was selected from 1990 adolescents aged 10–20 years: those with depression …

Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

…, J Strauss, JL Kennedy, A Farmer, P McGuffin… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Smoking is a leading global cause of disease and mortality 1 . We established the Oxford-GlaxoSmithKline
study (Ox-GSK) to perform a genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP association …