
Overview
Background
Naomi Wray is the Michael Davys Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She holds an appointment at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) within the University of Queensland. She joined UQ Queensland Brain Institute in 2011 moving to the IMB in 2015. She was Head of the Centre for Population & Disease Genomics within IMB 2018-2023. Her Oxford appointment started in 2023.
Her research focuses on development and application of quantitative genetics and genomics methodologies across complex diseases, disorders and traits, but particularly psychiatric-related traits.
She is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science. In 2020 she was awarded the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Leadership in Basic Science and the 2021 International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a Clarivate Highly Cited researcher.
She was Director of the Program in Complex Trait Genomics (PCTG) funded as an NHMRC Program Grant 2017-2022. She plays a key role in the International Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and established the sporadic ALS Australia systems genomics consortium (SALSA) funded by the MND Research Australia IceBucket Challenge and FightMND. She is a co-investigator on the Australian Genetics of Depression Study (AGDS) and is currently launching the AGDS-Cello project focussed on establishing a cell line resource from participants with a detailed history of anti-depressant use and response measures. She is part of an NHMRC Synergy (2023-2027) "Rhythms and blues: Personalising care for body clock dysfunction in mood disorders".
She is secretary of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, and is on the editorial advisory boards of JAMA Psychiatry, Neuron, Royal Society Open and Research Directions: Depression.
Availability
- Professor Naomi Wray is:
- Not available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Research interests
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Genetics of complex genetic traits, disease and disorders
Quantitative genetics methodology Genetics of Psychiatric Disorder Genetics of Motor Neurone Disease Genetics of Cognitive Ageing Systems Genomics
Works
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2016
Journal Article
Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
van Rheenen, Wouter, Shatunov, Aleksey, Dekker, Annelot M., McLaughlin, Russell L., Diekstra, Frank P., Pulit, Sara L., van der Spek, Rick A. A., Vosa, Urmo, de Jong, Simone, Robinson, Matthew R., Yang, Jian, Fogh, Isabella, van Doormaal, Perry T. C., Tazelaar, Gijs H. P., Koppers, Max, Blokhuis, Anna M., Sproviero, William, Jones, Ashley R., Kenna, Kevin P., van Eijk, Kristel R., Harschnitz, Oliver, Schellevis, Raymond D., Brands, William J., Medic, Jelena, Menelaou, Androniki, Vajda, Alice, Ticozzi, Nicola, Lin, Kuang, Rogelj, Boris ... Veldink, Jan H. (2016). Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nature Genetics, 48 (9) 611, 1043-1048. doi: 10.1038/ng.3622
2016
Journal Article
Concepts and misconceptions about the polygenic additive model applied to disease
Visscher, Peter M. and Wray, Naomi R. (2016). Concepts and misconceptions about the polygenic additive model applied to disease. Human Heredity, 80 (4), 165-170. doi: 10.1159/000446931
2016
Journal Article
Across-cohort QC analyses of GWAS summary statistics from complex traits
Chen, Guo-Bo, Lee, Sang Hong, Robinson, Matthew R., Trzaskowski, Maciej, Zhu, Zhi-Xiang, Winkler, Thomas W., Day, Felix R., Croteau-Chonka, Damien C., Wood, Andrew R., Locke, Adam E., Kutalik, Zoltán, Loos, Ruth J. F., Frayling, Timothy M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Yang, Jian, Wray, Naomi R. and Visscher, Peter M. (2016). Across-cohort QC analyses of GWAS summary statistics from complex traits. European Journal of Human Genetics, 25 (1), 137-146. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.106
2016
Other Outputs
DEAR-O: Differential Expression Analysis based on RNA-seq data - Online
Zhang, Zong-Hong, Wray, Naomi R. and Zhao, Qiong-Yi (2016). DEAR-O: Differential Expression Analysis based on RNA-seq data - Online. doi: 10.1101/069807
2016
Journal Article
GCTA-GREML accounts for linkage disequilibrium when estimating genetic variance from genome-wide SNPs
Yang, Jian, Lee, S. Hong, Wray, Naomi R., Goddard, Michael E. and Visscher, Peter M. (2016). GCTA-GREML accounts for linkage disequilibrium when estimating genetic variance from genome-wide SNPs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (32), E4579-E4580. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602743113
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
Predicting gene targets from integrative analyses of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies for 28 human complex traits
Pavlides, Jennifer M. Whitehead, Zhu, Zhihong, Gratten, Jacob, Mcrae, Allan F., Wray, Naomi R. and Yang, Jian (2016). Predicting gene targets from integrative analyses of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies for 28 human complex traits. Genome Medicine, 8 (1) 84, 84. doi: 10.1186/s13073-016-0338-4
2016
Journal Article
A method to decipher pleiotropy by detecting underlying heterogeneity driven by hidden subgroups applied to autoimmune and neuropsychiatric diseases
Han, Buhm, Pouget, Jennie G., Slowikowski, Kamil, Stahl, Eli, Lee, Cue Hyunkyu, Diogo, Dorothee, Hu, Xinli, Park, Yu Rang, Kim, Eunji, Gregersen, Peter K., Dahlqvist, Solbritt Rantapaa, Worthington, Jane, Martin, Javier, Eyre, Steve, Klareskog, Lars, Huizinga, Tom, Chen, Wei-Min, Onengut-Gumuscu, Suna, Rich, Stephen S., Wray, Naomi R. and Raychaudhuri, Soumya (2016). A method to decipher pleiotropy by detecting underlying heterogeneity driven by hidden subgroups applied to autoimmune and neuropsychiatric diseases. Nature Genetics, 48 (7), 803-810. doi: 10.1038/ng.3572
2016
Journal Article
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses
Okbay, Aysu, Baselmans, Bart M. L., De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Turley, Patrick, Nivard, Michel G., Fontana, Mark Alan, Meddens, S. Fleur W., Linner, Richard Karlsson, Rietveld, Cornelius A., Derringer, Jaime, Gratten, Jacob, Lee, James J., Liu, Jimmy Z., de Vlaming, Ronald, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Buchwald, Jadwiga, Cavadino, Alana, Frazier-Wood, Alexis C., Furlotte, Nicholas A., Garfield, Victoria, Geisel, Marie Henrike, Gonzalez, Juan R., Haitjema, Saskia, Karlsson, Robert, van der Laan, Sander W., Ladwig, Karl-Heinz, Lahti, Jari, van der Lee, Sven J., Lind, Penelope A. ... Cesarini, David (2016). Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses. Nature Genetics, 48 (6), 624-633. doi: 10.1038/ng.3552
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
Journal Article
Risk of psychiatric illness from advanced paternal age is not predominantly from de novo mutations
Gratten, Jacob, Wray, Naomi R., Peyrot, Wouter J., McGrath, John J., Visscher, Peter M. and Goddard, Michael E. (2016). Risk of psychiatric illness from advanced paternal age is not predominantly from de novo mutations. Nature Genetics, 48 (7), 718-+. doi: 10.1038/ng.3577
2016
Other Outputs
A better design for stratified medicine based on genomic prediction
Lee, S. Hong, Weerasinghe, W.M. Shalanee P., Wray, Naomi R., Goddard, Michael E. and Van der Werf, Julius H.J. (2016). A better design for stratified medicine based on genomic prediction. doi: 10.1101/054494
2016
Journal Article
A combined pathway and regional heritability analysis indicates NETRIN1 pathway is associated with major depressive disorder
Zeng, Yanni, Navarro, Pau, Fernandez-Pujals, Ana M., Hall, Lynsey S., Clarke, Toni-Kim, Thomson, Pippa A., Smith, Blair H., Hocking, Lynne J., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Hayward, Caroline, MacIntyre, Donald J., Wray, Naomi R., Deary, Ian J., Porteous, David J., Haley, Chris S. and McIntosh, Andrew M. (2016). A combined pathway and regional heritability analysis indicates NETRIN1 pathway is associated with major depressive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 81 (4), 336-346. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.04.017
2016
Journal Article
Evidence for genetic overlap between schizophrenia and age at first birth in women
Mehta, Divya, Tropf, Felix C., Gratten, Jacob, Bakshi, Andrew, Zhu, Zhihong, Bacanu, Silviu-Alin, Hemani, Gibran, Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Barban, Nicola, Esko, Tonu, Metspalu, Andres, Snieder, Harold, Mowry, Bryan J., Kendler, Kenneth S., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., McGrath, John J., Mills, Melinda C., Wray, Naomi R. and Lee, S. Hong (2016). Evidence for genetic overlap between schizophrenia and age at first birth in women. Jama Psychiatry, 73 (5), 497-505. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0129
2016
Journal Article
Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets
Zhu, Zhihong, Zhang, Futao, Hu, Han, Bakshi, Andrew, Robinson, Matthew R., Powell, Joseph E., Montgomery,Grant W., Goddard, Michael E., Wray, Naomi R., Visscher, Peter M. and Yang, Jian (2016). Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets. Nature Genetics, 48 (5), 481-487. doi: 10.1038/ng.3538
2016
Journal Article
Corrigendum: The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality [Int J Epidemiol., 45, 2, (424-432)(2016)] DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw041
Marioni, Riccardo E., Harris, Sarah E., Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., von Zglinicki, Thomas, Martin-Ruiz, Carmen, Wray, Naomi R., Visscher, Peter M. and Deary, Ian J. (2016). Corrigendum: The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality [Int J Epidemiol., 45, 2, (424-432)(2016)] DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw041. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47 (1) dyx217, 356-356. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx233
2016
Journal Article
The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality
Marioni, Riccardo E., Harris, Sarah E., Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., von Zglinicki, Thomas, Martin-Ruiz, Carmen, Wray, Naomi R., Visscher, Peter M. and Deary, Ian J. (2016). The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45 (2), 424-432. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw041
2016
Journal Article
Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study
Hou, Liping, Heilbronner, Urs, Degenhardt, Franziska, Adli, Mazda, Akiyama, Kazufumi, Akula, Nirmala, Ardau, Raffaella, Arias, Bárbara, Backlund, Lena, Banzato, Claudio E. M., Benabarre, Antoni, Bengesser, Susanne, Bhattacharjee, Abesh Kumar, Biernacka, Joanna M., Birner, Armin, Brichant-Petitjean, Clara, Bui, Elise T., Cervantes, Pablo, Chen, Guo-Bo, Chen, Hsi-Chung, Chillotti, Caterina, Cichon, Sven, Clark, Scott R., Colom, Francesc, Cousins, David A., Cruceanu, Cristiana, Czerski, Piotr M., Dantas, Clarissa R., Dayer, Alexandre ... Schulze, Thomas G. (2016). Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study. The Lancet, 387 (10023), 1085-1093. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00143-4
2016
Journal Article
Disease and polygenic architecture: avoid trio design and appropriately account for unscreened control subjects for common disease
Peyrot, Wouter J., Boomsma, Dorret I., Penninx, Brenda W. J. H. and Wray, Naomi R. (2016). Disease and polygenic architecture: avoid trio design and appropriately account for unscreened control subjects for common disease. American Journal of Human Genetics, 98 (2), 382-391. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.12.017
2016
Journal Article
DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death
Chen, Brian H., Marioni, Riccardo E., Colicino, Elena, Peters, Marjolein J., Ward-Caviness, Cavin K., Tsai, Pei-Chien, Roetker, Nicholas S., Just, Allan C., Demerath, Ellen W., Guan, Weihua, Bressler, Jan, Fornage, Myriam, Studenski, Stephanie, Vandiver, Amy R., Moore, Ann Zenobia, Tanaka, Toshiko, Kiel, Douglas P., Liang, Liming, Vokonas, Pantel, Schwartz, Joel, Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murabito, Joanne M., Bandinelli, Stefania, Hernandez, Dena G., Melzer, David, Nalls, Michael, Pilling, Luke C., Price, Timothy R., Singleton, Andrew B. ... Horvath, Steve (2016). DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death. Aging, 8 (9), 1844-1865. doi: 10.18632/aging.101020
Funding
Current funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Naomi Wray is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Multi-Omic Analyses of a Clinical Trial Cohort of Young People at Ultra-High Risk for Psychosis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Enda Byrne, Dr Allan McRae
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Doctor Philosophy
ELUCIDATING LIFESTYLE AND GENETIC FACTORS UNDERLYING DEPRESSION HETEROGENEITY AND TREATMENT RESPONSE
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Enda Byrne
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetics of childhood onset psychiatric symptoms, their persistence and comorbidity with other traits
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Enda Byrne
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding cellular and molecular heterogeneity in endometriosis using multi-omics data
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sally Mortlock, Dr Allan McRae
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetic architecture and evolution of complex traits across populations in humans
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Visscher, Dr Fleur Garton, Dr Jian Zeng
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Studying the effects of DNA methylation variation across neurodegenerative disorders
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Genetic analyses of complex traits using biobank data
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Visscher
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
A Complex Trait Genomics Approach to Investigating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Genetic Architecture of Psychiatric Disorders
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Visscher
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
The Role of Cytokines and Inflammatory Markers in Depression in Adolescents
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Gerard Byrne, Professor James Scott, Professor Nick Martin
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Using genomic data to advance understanding of heart failure aetiology
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sonia Shah
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Development and application of statistical methods to identify genes and cell types associated with complex traits
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jian Zeng
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Complement Modulation of Peripheral Immunity in Motor Neurone Disease and Huntington's Disease
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr John Lee, Professor Trent Woodruff
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Genomics of Perinatal Depression
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Enda Byrne
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the influence of genetics and heritability on the heterogeneity of ADHD presentations
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Sarah Medland
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Systems biology of motor neurone disease
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Shyuan Ngo, Dr Allan McRae
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Multi-omics data offer systemic insights into autism
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Gerald Holtmann, Honorary Professor Jake Gratten
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Genetic influences on substance use behaviour, substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Sarah Medland, Professor Nick Martin, Dr Lucia Colodro-Conde
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Improving fine-mapping methodology using DNA methylation as a model trait
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Visscher, Dr Allan McRae
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2018
Master Philosophy
Integrating genome-wide association study data with gene expression to understand complex traits and common diseases
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae, Honorary Professor Jake Gratten
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