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António Macedo |
+351 239820190 |
amacedo@ci.uc.pt |
Assitant Prof.; Head of Subacute Inpatient Unit, CHUC |
Group at CNC |
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Education: |
1986-1987 General Residency, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
1989-1993 Psychiatry Residency, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
1993-1994 Psychiatry Consultant, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
1996 Psychiatry Consultant, Ponta Delgada Hospital, Azores, Portugal
1997-1998 Psychiatry Consultant, Arnes Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
1998-2010 Psychiatry Consultant, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
1998- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2010- Psychiatry Graduate Consultant, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
2010-2012 Coordinator, Psychiatry Research: Molecular Genetics Studies of Complex Disorders, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra, Portugal
2011- Affiliated Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oporto, Portugal
2011-Head of the Medical Psychology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2011-Head of the Subacute Inpatient Unit, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
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Afiliation: |
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Area of Research: |
Genética psiquiátrica; personalidade e regulação emocional; psicoses, perturbação obsessivo-compulsiva
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Research Summary: |
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2180-2718
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Selected Publications: |
1. Service S., DeYoung J., Karayiorgou M., Louw Roos J., Pretorious H., Bedoya G., Ospina J., Ruiz-Linares A., Macedo A., Almeida Palha J., Heutink P., Aulchenko Y., Oostra B., van Duijn C., Jarvelin M., Varilo T., Peddle L., Rahman P., Piras G., Monne M., Murray S., Galver L., Peltonen L., Sabatti C., Collins A., FreimerN. Magnitude and distribution of linkage disequilibrium in population isolates and implications for genome-wide association studies. Nature Genetics; 38(5): 556-560- IF=24,1
2. International Schizophrenia Consortium. Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia. Nature;Sep 11;455(7210):237-41, 2008; IF=36
3. ,International Schizophrenia Consortium. Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Nature, Aug 6;460 (7256):748-52; IF= 36,1
4. Chen X, Lee G, Maher BS, Fanous AH, Chen J, Zhao Z, Guo A, van den Oord E, Sullivan PF, Shi J, Levinson DF, Gejman PV, Sanders A, Duan J, Owen MJ, Craddock NJ, O’Donovan MC, Blackman J, Lewis D,Kirov GK, Qin W, Schwab S,Wildenauer D, Chowdari K,Nimgaonkar V, Straub R, Weinberger DR, O’Neill A, Walsh D, Bronstein M,Darvasi A,Lencz T,Malhotra AK, Rujescu D, Giegling I, Werge T, Hansen T, Ingason A,Nöethen MM, Rietschel M, Cichon S, Djurovic S, Andreassen O, Cantor RM, Ophoff R, Corvin A, Morris DW, Gill M, Pato CN, Pato MT, Macedo A, Gurling H,McQuillin A, Pimm J, Hultman C, Lichtenstein P, Sklar P, Purcell SM, Scolnick E, St Clair D, Blackwood D, the GROUP investigators, the International Schizophrenia Consortium, Kendler KS. GWA study data-mining and independent replication identify cardiomyopathy associated 5 (CMYA5) as a risk gene for schizophrenia Molecular Psychiatry; 16(11): 117-1129, 2011; IF= 15
5. O'Dushlaine C, Kenny E, Heron E, Donohoe G, Gill M, Morris D; International Schizophrenia Consortium, Corvin A.Morris DW, O'Dushlaine CT, Kenny E, Quinn EM, Gill M, Corvin A, O'Donovan MC, Kirov GK, Craddock NJ, Holmans PA, Williams NM, Georgieva L, Nikolov I, Norton N, Williams H, Toncheva D, Milanova V, Owen MJ, Hultman CM, Lichtenstein P, Thelander EF, Sullivan P, McQuillin A, Choudhury K, Datta S, Pimm J, Thirumalai S, Puri V, Krasucki R, Lawrence J, Quested D, Bass N, Gurling H, Crombie C, Fraser G, Kuan SL, Walker N, St Clair D, Blackwood DH, Muir WJ, McGhee KA, Pickard B, Malloy P, Maclean AW, Van Beck M, Wray NR, Visscher PM, Macgregor S, Pato MT, Medeiros H, Middleton F, Carvalho C, Morley C, Fanous A, Conti D, Knowles JA, Ferreira CP, Macedo A, Azevedo MH, Pato CN, Stone JL, Ruderfer DM, Ferreira MA, Purcell SM, Stone JL, Chambert K, Ruderfer DM, Kuruvilla F, Gabriel SB, Ardlie K, Daly MJ, Scolnick EM, Sklar P. Molecular pathways involved in neuronal cell adhesion and membrane scaffolding contribute to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder susceptibility. Molecular Psychiatry.16(3):286-292, 2011; IF= 15
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