Honorary Professor

Sarah Medland

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Background

Professor Sarah Medland (OAM, FASSA, FAHMS, PhD) is a Psychiatric and Statistical Geneticist working in Neuroimaging and Mental health genetics. Her work bridges Genetics, Psychology, Neuro-Imaging, Health Economics and applied Statistics with a focus on understanding the genetic and environmental contributions to human behaviour and disease. She chairs the genetics working group of the ENIGMA neuroimaging consortium and is an active member of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

Primary Appointment: Coordinator of the Mental Health Research Program and Group Leader (Psychiatric Genetics) QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1382-380X

ResearcherID: C-7630-2013

Scopus Author ID: 34571085600

Email: sarah.medland@qimrberghofer.edu.au

Qualifications

2006 PhD (Psychology), University of Queensland

Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis

2000 BA Hons (Psychology), University of Queensland, 2000 (Psychology Double Major, English Minor)

Availability

Honorary Professor Sarah Medland is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Applied economics Psychology

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493 works between 2001 and 2025
All (493) Journal Article (408) Book Chapter (5) Conference Publication (62) Other Outputs (18)

261 - 280 of 493 works

2017

Other Outputs

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 Loci Associated with Bipolar Disorder

Stahl, Eli A, Breen, Gerome, Forstner, Andreas J, McQuillin, Andrew, Ripke, Stephan, Trubetskoy, Vassily, Mattheisen, Manuel, Wang, Yunpeng, Coleman, Jonathan R I, Gaspar, Héléna A, de Leeuw, Christiaan A, Steinberg, Stacy, Pavlides, Jennifer M Whitehead, Trzaskowski, Maciej, Pers, Tune H, Holmans, Peter A, Abbott, Liam, Agerbo, Esben, Akil, Huda, Albani, Diego, Alliey-Rodriguez, Ney, Als, Thomas D, Anjorin, Adebayo, Antilla, Verneri, Awasthi, Swapnil, Badner, Judith A, Bækvad-Hansen, Marie, Barchas, Jack D, Bass, Nicholas ... Sklar, Pamela (2017). Genome-wide association study identifies 30 Loci Associated with Bipolar Disorder. doi: 10.1101/173062

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 Loci Associated with Bipolar Disorder

2017

Journal Article

Neuroticism and the Overlap between Autistic and ADHD Traits: Findings from a Population Sample of Young Adult Australian Twins

Park, Shin-Ho, Guastella, Adam J., Lynskey, Michael, Agrawal, Arpana, Constantino, John N., Medland, Sarah E., Song, Yun Ju C., Martin, Nicholas G. and Colodro-Conde, Lucía (2017). Neuroticism and the Overlap between Autistic and ADHD Traits: Findings from a Population Sample of Young Adult Australian Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 20 (4), 319-329. doi: 10.1017/thg.2017.38

Neuroticism and the Overlap between Autistic and ADHD Traits: Findings from a Population Sample of Young Adult Australian Twins

2017

Journal Article

Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts

Silventoinen, Karri, Jelenkovic, Aline, Sund, Reijo, Yokoyama, Yoshie, Hur, Yoon-Mi, Cozen, Wendy, Hwang, Amie E., Mack, Thomas M., Honda, Chika, Inui, Fujio, Iwatani, Yoshinori, Watanabe, Mikio, Tomizawa, Rie, Pietilainen, Kirsi H., Rissanen, Aila, Siribaddana, Sisira H., Hotopf, Matthew, Sumathipala, Athula, Rijsdijk, Fruhling, Tan, Qihua, Zhang, Dongfeng, Pang, Zengchang, Piirtola, Maarit, Aaltonen, Sari, Oncel, Sevgi Y., Aliev, Fazil, Rebato, Esther, Hjelmborg, Jacob B., Christensen, Kaare ... Kaprio, Jaakko (2017). Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 106 (2), 457-466. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.117.153643

Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts

2017

Journal Article

A direct test of the diathesis–stress model for depression

Colodro-Conde, L., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Zhu, G., Coventry, W. L., Byrne, E. M., Gordon, S., Wright, M. J., Montgomery, G. W., Madden, P. A. F., Ripke, S., Eaves, L. J., Heath, A. C., Wray, N. R., Medland, S. E. and Martin, N. G. (2017). A direct test of the diathesis–stress model for depression. Molecular Psychiatry, 23 (7), 1590-1596. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.130

A direct test of the diathesis–stress model for depression

2017

Journal Article

No genetic overlap between circulating iron levels and Alzheimer's disease

Lupton, Michelle K., Benyamin, Beben, Proitsi, Petroula, Nyholt, Dale R., Ferreira, Manuel A., Montgomery, Grant W., Heath, Andrew C., Madden, Pamela A., Medland, Sarah E., Gordon, Scott D., Lovestone, Simon, Tsolaki, Magda, Kloszewska, Iwona, Soininen, Hilkka, Mecocci, Patrizia, Vellas, Bruno, Powell, John F., Bush, Ashley I., Wright, Margaret J., Martin, Nicholas G. and Whitfield, John B. (2017). No genetic overlap between circulating iron levels and Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Alzheimers Disease, 59 (1), 85-99. doi: 10.3233/JAD-170027

No genetic overlap between circulating iron levels and Alzheimer's disease

2017

Journal Article

Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders

Weiner, Daniel J., Wigdor, Emilie M., Ripke, Stephan, Walters, Raymond K., Kosmicki, Jack A., Grove, Jakob, Samocha, Kaitlin E., Goldstein, Jacqueline I., Okbay, Aysu, Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas, Werge, Thomas, Hougaard, David M, Taylor, Jacob, Skuse, David, Devlin, Bernie, Anney, Richard, Sanders, Stephan J, Bishop, Somer, Mortensen, Preben Bo, Børglum, Anders D, Smith, George Davey, Daly, Mark J, Robinson, Elise B., Bækvad-Hansen, Marie, Dumont, Ashley, Hansen, Christine, Hansen, Thomas F., Howrigan, Daniel, Mattheisen, Manuel ... iPSYCH-Broad Autism Grp ; Psychiat Genomics Consortium (2017). Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders. Nature Genetics, 49 (7), 978-985. doi: 10.1038/ng.3863

Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders

2017

Journal Article

Obstetrical, pregnancy and socio-economic predictors for new-onset severe postpartum psychiatric disorders in primiparous women

Meltzer-Brody, S., Maegbaek, M. L., Medland, S. E., Miller, W. C., Sullivan, P. and Munk-Olsen, T. (2017). Obstetrical, pregnancy and socio-economic predictors for new-onset severe postpartum psychiatric disorders in primiparous women. Psychological Medicine, 47 (8), 1427-1441. doi: 10.1017/S0033291716003020

Obstetrical, pregnancy and socio-economic predictors for new-onset severe postpartum psychiatric disorders in primiparous women

2017

Journal Article

Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

Anney, Richard J. L., Ripke, Stephan, Anttila, Verneri, Grove, Jakob, Holmans, Peter, Huang, Hailiang, Klei, Lambertus, Lee, Phil H., Medland, Sarah E., Neale, Benjamin, Robinson, Elise, Weiss, Lauren A., Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie, Yu, Timothy W., Wittemeyer, Kerstin, Willsey, A.Jeremy, Wijsman, Ellen M., Werge, Thomas, Wassink, Thomas H., Waltes, Regina, Walsh, Christopher A., Wallace, Simon, Vorstman, Jacob A. S., Vieland, Veronica J., Vicente, Astrid M., Vanengeland, Herman, Tsang, Kathryn, Thompson, Ann P., Szatmari, Peter ... The Autism Spectrum Disorders Working Group of The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (2017). Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia. Molecular Autism, 8 (1) 21. doi: 10.1186/s13229-017-0137-9

Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

2017

Journal Article

Subcortical brain structure and suicidal behaviour in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis from the ENIGMA-MDD working group

Renteria, M. E., Schmaal, L., Hibar, D. P., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Strike, L. T., Mills, N. T., de Zubicaray, G. I., McMahon, K. L., Medland, S. E., Gillespie, N. A., Hatton, S. N., Lagopoulos, J., Veltman, D. J., van der Wee, N., van Erp, T. G. M., Wittfeld, K., Grabe, H. J., Block, A., Hegenscheid, K., Voelzke, H., Veer, I. M., Walter, H., Schnell, K., Schramm, E., Normann, C., Schoepf, D., Konrad, C., Zurowski, B., Godlewska, B. R. ... Hickie, I. B. (2017). Subcortical brain structure and suicidal behaviour in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis from the ENIGMA-MDD working group. Translational Psychiatry, 7 (5) e1116, e1116-e1116. doi: 10.1038/tp.2017.84

Subcortical brain structure and suicidal behaviour in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis from the ENIGMA-MDD working group

2017

Journal Article

Does the sex of one’s co-twin affect height and BMI in adulthood? A study of dizygotic adult twins from 31 cohorts

Bogl, Leonie H., Jelenkovic, Aline, Vuoksimaa, Eero, Ahrenfeldt, Linda, Pietiläinen, Kirsi H., Stazi, Maria A., Fagnani, Corrado, D’Ippolito, Cristina, Hur, Yoon-Mi, Jeong, Hoe-Uk, Silberg, Judy L., Eaves, Lindon J., Maes, Hermine H., Bayasgalan, Gombojav, Narandalai, Danshiitsoodol, Cutler, Tessa L., Kandler, Christian, Jang, Kerry L., Christensen, Kaare, Skytthe, Axel, Kyvik, Kirsten O., Cozen, Wendy, Hwang, Amie E., Mack, Thomas M., Derom, Catherine A., Vlietinck, Robert F., Nelson, Tracy L., Whitfield, Keith E., Corley, Robin P. ... Kaprio, Jaakko (2017). Does the sex of one’s co-twin affect height and BMI in adulthood? A study of dizygotic adult twins from 31 cohorts. Biology of Sex Differences, 8 (1) 14. doi: 10.1186/s13293-017-0134-x

Does the sex of one’s co-twin affect height and BMI in adulthood? A study of dizygotic adult twins from 31 cohorts

2017

Journal Article

Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

Hoogman, Martine, Bralten, Janita, Hibar, Derrek P, Mennes, Maarten, Zwiers, Marcel P, Schweren, Lizanne S J, van Hulzen, Kimm J E, Medland, Sarah E, Shumskaya, Elena, Jahanshad, Neda, Zeeuw, Patrick de, Szekely, Eszter, Sudre, Gustavo, Wolfers, Thomas, Onnink, Alberdingk M H, Dammers, Janneke T, Mostert, Jeanette C, Vives-Gilabert, Yolanda, Kohls, Gregor, Oberwelland, Eileen, Seitz, Jochen, Schulte-Rüther, Martin, Ambrosino, Sara, Doyle, Alysa E, Høvik, Marie F, Dramsdahl, Margaretha, Tamm, Leanne, van Erp, Theo G M, Dale, Anders ... Franke, Barbara (2017). Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 4 (4), 310-319. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30049-4

Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

2017

Journal Article

Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

Day, Felix R., Thompson, Deborah J., Helgason, Hannes, Chasman, Daniel I., Finucane, Hilary, Sulem, Patrick, Ruth, Katherine S., Whalen, Sean, Sarkar, Abhishek K., Albrecht, Eva, Altmaier, Elisabeth, Amini, Marzyeh, Barbieri, Caterina M., Boutin, Thibaud, Campbell, Archie, Demerath, Ellen, Giri, Ayush, He, Chunyan, Hottenga, Jouke J., Karlsson, Robert, Kolcic, Ivana, Loh, Po-Ru, Lunetta, Kathryn L., Mangino, Massimo, Marco, Brumat, McMahon, George, Medland, Sarah E., Nolte, Ilja M., Noordam, Raymond ... Perry, John R. B. (2017). Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk. Nature Genetics, 49 (6), 834-841. doi: 10.1038/ng.3841

Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

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

Genetic effects influencing risk for major depressive disorder in China and Europe

2017

Other Outputs

An epigenome-wide association study of educational attainment (n = 10,767)

Linnér, Richard Karlsson, Marioni, Riccardo E, Rietveld, Cornelius A, Simpkin, Andrew, Davies, Neil M, Watanabe, Kyoko, Armstrong, Nicola J, Auro, Kirsi, Baumbach, Clemens, Bonder, Marc Jan, Buchwald, Jadwiga, Fiorito, Giovanni, Ismail, Khadeeja, Iurato, Stella, Joensuu, Anni, Karell, Pauliina, Kasela, Silva, Lahti, Jari, McRae, Allan F, Mandaviya, Pooja R, Seppälä, Ilkka, Wang, Yunzhang, Baglietto, Laura, Binder, Elisabeth B, Harris, Sarah E, Hodge, Allison M, Horvath, Steve, Hurme, Mikko, Johannesson, Magnus ... Benjamin, Daniel J (2017). An epigenome-wide association study of educational attainment (n = 10,767). doi: 10.1101/114637

An epigenome-wide association study of educational attainment (n = 10,767)

2017

Journal Article

Identification of shared risk loci and pathways for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Forstner, Andreas J., Hecker, Julian, Hofmann, Andrea, Maaser, Anna, Reinbold, Céline S., Mühleisen, Thomas W., Leber, Markus, Strohmaier, Jana, Degenhardt, Franziska, Treutlein, Jens, Mattheisen, Manuel, Schumacher, Johannes, Streit, Fabian, Meier, Sandra, Herms, Stefan, Hoffmann, Per, Lacour, André, Witt, Stephanie H., Reif, Andreas, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Lucae, Susanne, Maier, Wolfgang, Schwarz, Markus, Vedder, Helmut, Kammerer-Ciernioch, Jutta, Pfennig, Andrea, Bauer, Michael, Hautzinger, Martin, Moebus, Susanne ... Nöthen, Markus M. (2017). Identification of shared risk loci and pathways for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. PLoS ONE, 12 (2) e0171595, e0171595. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171595

Identification of shared risk loci and pathways for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

2017

Journal Article

Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

Hibar, Derrek P., Adams, Hieab H. H., Jahanshad, Neda, Chauhan, Ganesh, Stein, Jason L., Hofer, Edith, Renteria, Miguel E., Bis, Joshua C., Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro, Ikram, M. Kamran, Desrivieres, Sylvane, Vernooij, Meike W., Abramovic, Lucija, Alhusaini, Saud, Amin, Najaf, Andersson, Micael, Arfanakis, Konstantinos, Aribisala, Benjamin S., Armstrong, Nicola J., Athanasiu, Lavinia, Axelsson, Tomas, Beecham, Ashley H., Beiser, Alexa, Bernard, Manon, Blanton, Susan H., Bohlken, Marc M., Boks, Marco P., Bralten, Janita, Brickman, Adam M. ... Ikram, M. Arfan (2017). Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume. Nature Communications, 8 (1) 13624, 13624. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13624

Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

2017

Journal Article

Genetic analysis of hyperemesis gravidarum reveals association with intracellular calcium release channel (RYR2)

Fejzo, Marlena Schoenberg, Myhre, Ronny, Colodro-Conde, Lucía, MacGibbon, Kimber W, Sinsheimer, Janet S., Reddy, M. V. Prasad Linga, Pajukanta, Paivi, Nyholt, Dale R., Wright, Margaret J., Martin, Nicholas G., Engel, Stephanie M., Medland, Sarah E., Magnus, Per and Mullin, Patrick M. (2017). Genetic analysis of hyperemesis gravidarum reveals association with intracellular calcium release channel (RYR2). Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 439 (C), 308-316. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2016.09.017

Genetic analysis of hyperemesis gravidarum reveals association with intracellular calcium release channel (RYR2)

2017

Conference Publication

First GWAS meta-analysis on nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

Conde, Lucia Colodro, Paternoster, Lavinia, Lind, Penelope, Painter, Jodie, Wright, Margie, Montgomery, Grant, Nyholt, Dale and Medland, Sarah E. (2017). First GWAS meta-analysis on nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. 23rd Annual World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), Toronto, Canada, 16-20 October, 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV.

First GWAS meta-analysis on nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

2017

Conference Publication

Heritability of hair cortisol and genetic overlap with psychological variables

Streit, Fabian, Rietschel, Liz, Zhu, Gu, McAloney, Kerrie, Frank, Josef, Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste, Witt, Stephanie H., Binz, Tina, McGrath, John, Hickie, Ian B., Hansell, Narelle K., Wright, Margaret J., Gillespie, Nathan, Forstner, Andreas J., Schulze, Thomas G., Wüst, Stefan, Nöthen, Markus M., Baumgartner, Markus, Walker, Brian R., Crawford, Andrew A., Conde, Lucia Colodro, Medland, Sarah E., Martin, Nicholas G. and Rietschel, Marcella (2017). Heritability of hair cortisol and genetic overlap with psychological variables. 47th Annual Conference of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Zurich, Switzerland, 7-9 September, 2017. OXFORD: Pergamon. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.07.452

Heritability of hair cortisol and genetic overlap with psychological variables

2017

Book Chapter

Continuous inflation analysis: a threshold-free method to estimate genetic overlap and boost power in imaging genetics

Hibar, Derrek P., Jahanshad, Neda, Medland, Sarah E. and Thompson, Paul M. (2017). Continuous inflation analysis: a threshold-free method to estimate genetic overlap and boost power in imaging genetics. Imaging Genetics. (pp. 147-162) Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier Inc.. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-813968-4.00009-2

Continuous inflation analysis: a threshold-free method to estimate genetic overlap and boost power in imaging genetics

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Genetic and environmental risk factors influencing mood disorders

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Genetic and environmental risk factors influencing mood disorders

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Genetic architecture of differences in symptomatology and treatment response in major depressive disorder

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Nick Martin, Associate Professor Miguel Rentería

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Unveiling the Complexities of Psychotic Disorders: Enhancing Treatment Safety and Understanding Heterogeneity Through Biomarkers, Genetic Analysis, and Multimodal Data Integration

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Dan Siskind

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Statistical Genetic Analyses of Major Depressive Disorder

    Associate Advisor

Completed supervision

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