Overview
Background
The objective of my research is to improve understanding of the genetic etiology and biological mechanisms underlying risk of common psychiatric disorders, particularly those with onset during childhood and adolescence. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Child Health Research Centre, I lead a number of domestic and international collaborations that evaluate the association between polygenic risk scores, environmental variables and behaviour during childhood and adolescence. My group applies innovative statistical methods to large longitudinal datasets with information from infancy through to adulthood and to evaluate genetic and environmental contributions to risk to mental health problems. In addition, our research focuses on the potential clinical utility of polygenic risk scores in psychiatry. I have contributed to major advances in understanding of the etiology of a number of psychiatric disorders, with a major focus on depression
PhD and Honours projects are available in the group. Please contact me for more information.
Availability
- Dr Enda Byrne is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Genomic Technologies
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Statistical and Computational methods
Research impacts
My research has contributed to advances in a number of fields through the identification of previously unknown genetic variants that contribute to risk to complex disorders. The identification of these variants opens up new avenues for developing drug targets to target the biological pathways in which they are found.
Works
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2017
Journal Article
Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression
Culverhouse, R. C., Saccone, N. L., Horton, A. C., Ma, Y., Anstey, K. J., Banaschewski, T., Burmeister, M., Cohen-Woods, S., Etain, B., Fisher, H. L., Goldman, N., Guillaume, S., Horwood, J., Juhasz, G., Lester, K. J., Mandelli, L., Middeldorp, C. M., Olie, E., Villafuerte, S., Air, T. M., Araya, R., Bowes, L., Burns, R., Byrne, E. M., Coffey, C., Coventry, W. L., Gawronski, K. A. B., Glei, D., Hatzimanolis, A. ... Bierut, L. J. (2017). Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression. Molecular Psychiatry, 23 (1), 133-142. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.44
2017
Journal Article
Genetic effects influencing risk for major depressive disorder in China and Europe
Bigdeli, T. B., Ripke, S., Peterson, R. E., Trzaskowski, M., Bacanu, S-A, Abdellaoui, A., Andlauer, T. F. M., Beekman, A. T. F., Berger, K., Blackwood, D. H. R., Boomsma, D. I., Breen, G., Buttenschon, H. N., Byrne, E. M., Cichon, S., Clarke, T-K, Couvy-Duchesne, B., Craddock, N., de Geus, E. J. C., Degenhardt, F., Dunn, E. C., Edwards, A. C., Fanous, A. H., Forstner, A. J., Frank, J., Gill, M., Gordon, S. D., Grabe, H. J., Hamilton, S. P. ... Kendler, K. S. (2017). Genetic effects influencing risk for major depressive disorder in China and Europe. Translational Psychiatry, 7 (3) e1074, e1074-e1074. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.292
2017
Conference Publication
Shared genetic risk factors between schizophrenia and sleep quality in a population-based cohort of Australian twins
Byrne, E. and Martin, N. (2017). Shared genetic risk factors between schizophrenia and sleep quality in a population-based cohort of Australian twins. 23rd Annual World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), Toronto, Canada, 16-20 October 2017. Elsevier.
2016
Journal Article
Genome-wide regional heritability mapping identifies a locus within the TOX2 gene associated with major depressive disorder
Zeng, Yanni, Navarro, Pau, Shirali, Masoud, Howard, David M., Adams, Mark J., Hall, Lynsey S., Clarke, Toni-Kim, Thomson, Pippa A., Smith, Blair H., Murray, Alison, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Hayward, Caroline, Boutin, Thibaud, MacIntyre, Donald J., Lewis, Cathryn M., Wray, Naomi R., Mehta, Divya, Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., Milaneschi, Yuri, Baune, Bernhard T., Air, Tracy, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Mbarek, Hamdi, Castelao, Enrique, Pistis, Giorgio, Schulze, Thomas G., Streit, Fabian, Forstner, Andreas J., Byrne, Enda M. ... McIntosh, Andrew M. (2016). Genome-wide regional heritability mapping identifies a locus within the TOX2 gene associated with major depressive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 82 (5), 312-321. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.012
2016
Journal Article
Association of the polygenic risk score for schizophrenia with mortality and suicidal behavior - a Danish population-based study
Laursen, Thomas M., Trabjerg, Betina B., Mors, Ole, Borglum, Anders D., Hougaard, David M., Mattheisen, Manuel, Meier, Sandra M., Byrne, Enda M., Mortensen, Preben B., Munk-Olsen, Trine and Agerbo, Esben (2016). Association of the polygenic risk score for schizophrenia with mortality and suicidal behavior - a Danish population-based study. Schizophrenia Research, 184, 122-127. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.12.001
2016
Conference Publication
The genetics of sleep behaviour
Byrne, Enda and Byrne, Enda (2016). The genetics of sleep behaviour. 46th Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association, Brisbane Australia, Jun 20-23, 2016. NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD.
2016
Journal Article
Genetic variants in RBFOX3 are associated with sleep latency
Amin, Najaf, Allebrandt, Karla V., van der Spek, Ashley, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Hek, Karin, Teder-Laving, Maris, Hayward, Caroline, Esko, Tõnu, van Mill, Josine G., Mbarek, Hamdi, Watson, Nathaniel F., Melville, Scott A., Del Greco, Fabiola M., Byrne, Enda M., Oole, Edwin, Kolcic, Ivana, Chen, Ting-hsu, Evans, Daniel S., Coresh, Josef, Vogelzangs, Nicole, Karjalainen, Juha, Willemsen, Gonneke, Gharib, Sina A., Zgaga, Lina, Mihailov, Evelin, Stone, Katie L., Campbell, Harry, Brouwer, Rutger W. W., Demirkan, Ayse ... van Duijn, Cornelia M. (2016). Genetic variants in RBFOX3 are associated with sleep latency. European Journal of Human Genetics, 24 (10), 1488-1495. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.31
2016
Journal Article
Genetic correlation analysis suggests association between increased self-reported sleep duration in adults and schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes
Byrne, Enda M., Gehrman, Philip R., Trzaskowski, Maciej, Tiemeier, Henning and Pack, Allan I. (2016). Genetic correlation analysis suggests association between increased self-reported sleep duration in adults and schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes. Sleep, 39 (10), 1853-1857. doi: 10.5665/sleep.6168
2016
Journal Article
Erratum: Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of anxiety disorders (vol 21, pg 1391, 2016)
Otowa, T., Hek, K., Lee, M., Byrne, E. M., Mirza, S. S., Nivard, M. G., Bigdeli, T., Aggen, S. H., Adkins, D., Wolen, A., Fanous, A., Keller, M. C., Castelao, E., Kutalik, Z., Auwera, S. V. der, Homuth, G., Nauck, M., Teumer, A., Milaneschi, Y., Hottenga, J-J, Direk, N., Hofman, A., Uitterlinden, A., Mulder, C. L., Henders, A. K., Medland, S. E., Gordon, S., Heath, A. C., Madden, P. A. F. ... Hettema, J. M. (2016). Erratum: Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of anxiety disorders (vol 21, pg 1391, 2016). Molecular Psychiatry, 21 (10), 1485-1485. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.11
2016
Journal Article
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of anxiety disorders
Otowa, T., Hek, K., Lee, M., Byrne, E. M., Mirza, S. S., Nivard, M. G., Bigdeli, T., Aggen, S. H., Adkins, D., Wolen, A., Fanous, A., Keller, M. C., Castelao, E., Kutalik, Z., Der Auwera, S. V., Homuth, G., Nauck, M., Teumer, A., Milaneschi, Y., Hottenga, J. -J., Direk, N., Hofman, A., Uitterlinden, A., Mulder, C. L., Henders, A. K., Medland, S. E., Gordon, S., Heath, A. C., Madden, P. A. F. ... Hettema, J. M. (2016). Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of anxiety disorders. Molecular Psychiatry, 21 (10), 1391-1399. doi: 10.1038/mp.2015.197
2016
Other Outputs
Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and maintained by background selection
Pardiñas, Antonio F., Holmans, Peter, Pocklington, Andrew J., Escott-Price, Valentina, Ripke, Stephan, Carrera, Noa, Legge, Sophie E., Bishop, Sophie, Cameron, Darren, Hamshere, Marian L., Han, Jun, Hubbard, Leon, Lynham, Amy, Mantripragada, Kiran, Rees, Elliott, MacCabe, James H., McCarroll, Steven A., Baune, Bernhard T., Breen, Gerome, Byrne, Enda M., Dannlowski, Udo, Eley, Thalia C., Hayward, Caroline, Martin, Nicholas G., McIntosh, Andrew M., Plomin, Robert, Porteous, David J., Wray, Naomi R., Consortium, GERAD ... Walters, James T. R. (2016). Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and maintained by background selection. doi: 10.1101/068593
2016
Journal Article
Genome-wide association analyses in 128,266 individuals identifies new morningness and sleep duration loci
Jones, Samuel E., Tyrrell, Jessica, Wood, Andrew R., Beaumont, Robin N., Ruth, Katherine S., Tuke, Marcus A., Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Hu, Youna, Teder-Laving, Maris, Hayward, Caroline, Roenneberg, Till, Wilson, James F., Del Greco, Fabiola, Hicks, Andrew A., Shin, Chol, Yun, Chang-Ho, Lee, Seung Ku, Metspalu, Andres, Byrne, Enda M., Gehrman, Philip R., Tiemeier, Henning, Allebrandt, Karla V., Freathy, Rachel M., Murray, Anna, Hinds, David A., Frayling, Timothy M. and Weedon, Michael N. (2016). Genome-wide association analyses in 128,266 individuals identifies new morningness and sleep duration loci. PLoS Genetics, 12 (8) e1006125, e1006125-e1006125. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006125
2016
Journal Article
An analysis of two genome-wide association meta-analyses identifies a new locus for broad depression phenotype
Direk, Nese, Williams, Stephanie, Smith, Jennifer A., Ripke, Stephan, Air, Tracy, Amare, Azmeraw T., Amin, Najaf, Baune, Bernhard T., Bennett, David A., Blackwood, Douglas H. R., Boomsma, Dorret, Breen, Gerome, Buttenschon, Henriette N., Byrne, Enda M., Borglum, Anders D., Castelao, Enrique, Cichon, Sven, Clarke, Toni-Kim, Cornelis, Marilyn C., Dannlowski, Udo, De Jager, Philip L., Demirkan, Ayse, Domenici, Enrico, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Dunn, Erin C., Eriksson, Johan G., Esko, Tonu, Faul, Jessica D., Ferrucci, Luigi ... Sullivan, Patrick F. (2016). An analysis of two genome-wide association meta-analyses identifies a new locus for broad depression phenotype. Biological Psychiatry, 82 (5), 322-329. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.11.013
2016
Journal Article
Genome-wide association for major depression through age at onset stratification: Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
Power, Robert A., Tansey, Katherine E., Buttenschøn, Henriette Nørmølle, Cohen-Woods, Sarah, Bigdeli, Tim, Hall, Lynsey S., Kutalik, Zoltán, Lee, S. Hong, Ripke, Stephan, Steinberg, Stacy, Teumer, Alexander, Viktorin, Alexander, Wray, Naomi R., Arolt, Volker, Baune, Bernard T., Boomsma, Dorret I., Børglum, Anders D., Byrne, Enda M., Castelao, Enrique, Craddock, Nick, Craig, Ian, Dannlowski, Udo, Deary, Ian J., Degenhardt, Franziska, Forstner, Andreas J., Gordon, Scott D., Grabe, Hans J., Grove, Jakob, Hamilton, Steven P. ... Lewis, Cathryn M. (2016). Genome-wide association for major depression through age at onset stratification: Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Biological Psychiatry, 81 (4), 325-335. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.05.010
2016
Other Outputs
Genome-wide association analyses in > 119,000 individuals identifies thirteen morningness and two sleep duration loci
Jones, Samuel E., Tyrrell, Jessica, Wood, Andrew R., Beaumont, Robin N., Ruth, Katherine S., Tuke, Marcus A., Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Hu, Youna, Teder-Laving, Maris, Hayward, Caroline, Roenneberg, Till, Wilson, James F., Del Greco, Fabiola, Hicks, Andrew A., Shin, Chol, Yun, Chang-Ho, Lee, Seung Ku, Metspalu, Andres, Byrne, Enda M., Gehrman, Philip R., Tiemeier, Henning, Allebrandt, Karla V., Freathy, Rachel M., Murray, Anna, Hinds, David A., Frayling, Timothy M. and Weedon, Michael N. (2016). Genome-wide association analyses in > 119,000 individuals identifies thirteen morningness and two sleep duration loci. doi: 10.1101/031369
2016
Conference Publication
Genetic correlation analysis suggests association between increased self-reported sleep duration in adults and schizophrenia and type-2 diabetes
Byrne, E., Gehrman, P. R., Tiemeier, H. and Pack, A. I. (2016). Genetic correlation analysis suggests association between increased self-reported sleep duration in adults and schizophrenia and type-2 diabetes. 28th ASM of Australasian Sleep Association and Australasian Sleep Technologists Association, Adelaide Convention Centre, 20-22 October 2016. HOBOKEN: Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12453
2016
Conference Publication
Sleep disorders and risk of incident depression: A population case-control study
Byrne, E. and Agerbo, E. (2016). Sleep disorders and risk of incident depression: A population case-control study. 28th ASM of Australasian Sleep Association and Australasian Sleep Technologists Association, Adelaide Convention Centre, 20-22 October 2016. HOBOKEN: Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12453
2015
Journal Article
Genetics of sleep disorders
Gehrman, Philip R., Keenan, Brendan T., Byrne, Enda M. and Pack, Allan I. (2015). Genetics of sleep disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 38 (4), 667-681. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2015.07.004
2015
Journal Article
Design and implementation of the international genetics and translational research in transplantation network
Keating, Brendan J., van Setten, Jessica, Jacobson, Pamala A., Holmes, Michael V., Verma, Shefali S., Chandrupatla, Hareesh R., Nair, Nikhil, Gao, Hui, Li, Yun R., Chang, Bao-Li, Wong, Chanel, Phillips, Randy, Cole, Brian S., Mukhtar, Eyas, Zhang, Weijia, Cao, Hongzhi, Mohebnasab, Maede, Hou, Cuiping, Lee, Takesha, Steel, Laura, Shaked, Oren, Garifallou, James, Miller, Michael B., Karczewski, Konrad J., Akdere, Abdullah, Gonzalez, Ana, Lloyd, Kelsey M., McGinn, Daniel, Michaud, Zach ... The International Genetics & Translational Research in Transplantation Network (2015). Design and implementation of the international genetics and translational research in transplantation network. Transplantation, 99 (11), 2401-2412. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000913
2015
Journal Article
The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? results in ∼25 000 subjects
Peyrot, W. J., Lee, S. H., Milaneschi, Y., Abdellaoui, A., Byrne, E. M., Esko, T., de Geus, E. J. C., Hemani, G., Hottenga, J. J., Kloiber, S., Levinson, D. F., Lucae, S., Martin, N. G., Medland, S. E., Metspalu, A., Milani, L., Noethen, M. M., Potash, J. B., Rietschel, M., Rietveld, C. A., Ripke, S., Shi, J., Willemsen, G., Zhu, Z., Boomsma, D. I., Wray, N. R., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium and Middeldorp, Christel (2015). The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? results in ∼25 000 subjects. Molecular Psychiatry, 20 (6), 735-743. doi: 10.1038/mp.2015.50
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
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Available projects
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Gene Environment interactions in Mental health trajectories of Youth (Youth-GEMs)
Mental health problems are common in young people, with life-long enduring impacts on individuals, families and societies. More than 63% of mental disorders throughout the life span emerge before 24 years of age, peaking at 14.5-18 years. Adolescence and young adulthood represent a critical period that forecasts the level of mental wellbeing over lifetime and interventions early in life may be critical in preventing later mental illness.
The Child and Youth Mental Health Group is part of an Australian and European Union-funded consortium called Youth-GEMs that seeks to characterise and model trajectories of mental health in youth. In collaboration with researchers from universities in Europe, this project will combine datasets from longitudinal cohort studies from around the world to investigate the interplay between genetic, epigenetic, and environmental risk in influencing mental health across development.
This project will involve advanced data analytics and statistical inference and will involve combining and analysing different types of data including genetic, clinical and environmental data. The ultimate goal is to develop predictive tools that can be used to aid clinical decision-making in youth mental health.
We are seeking a motivated PhD scholar with a background in genetics, biomedical science, psychology, data science, machine learning or a related field to join our team and work closely with collaborators overseas on this project. There is also the possibility to spend time overseas at one of the collaborating labs.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Gene Environment interactions in Mental health trajectories of Youth
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and associated comorbidities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetics of childhood onset psychiatric symptoms, their persistence and comorbidity with other traits
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Naomi Wray
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Doctor Philosophy
Multi-Omic Analyses of a Clinical Trial Cohort of Young People at Ultra-High Risk for Psychosis
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae, Professor Naomi Wray
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Doctor Philosophy
ELUCIDATING LIFESTYLE AND GENETIC FACTORS UNDERLYING DEPRESSION HETEROGENEITY AND TREATMENT RESPONSE
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Naomi Wray
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Genomics of Perinatal Depression
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Naomi Wray
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Embracing Complexity in Psychiatric Genetics: Investigating Heterogeneity and Pleiotropy in Depression and Major Psychiatric Disorders
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Sarah Medland
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Sleep and Internalising Symptoms in Adolescence
Associate Advisor
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