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)

301 - 320 of 493 works

2016

Journal Article

Genetic and environmental influences on literacy and numeracy performance in Australian school children in Grades 3, 5, 7, and 9

Grasby, Katrina L., Coventry, William L., Byrne, Brian, Olson, Richard K. and Medland, Sarah E. (2016). Genetic and environmental influences on literacy and numeracy performance in Australian school children in Grades 3, 5, 7, and 9. Behavior Genetics, 46 (5), 627-648. doi: 10.1007/s10519-016-9797-z

Genetic and environmental influences on literacy and numeracy performance in Australian school children in Grades 3, 5, 7, and 9

2016

Journal Article

Genome-wide association study of pathological gambling

Lang, M., Leménager, T., Streit, F., Fauth-Bühler, M., Frank, J., Juraeva, D., Witt, S. H., Degenhardt, F., Hofmann, A., Heilmann-Heimbach, S., Kiefer, F., Brors, B., Grabe, H. J., John, U., Bischof, A., Bischof, G., Völker, U., Homuth, G., Beutel, M., Lind, P. A., Medland, S. E., Slutske, W. S., Martin, N. G., Völzke, H., Nöthen, M. M., Meyer, C., Rumpf, H. J., Wurst, F. M., Rietschel, M. and Mann, K. F. (2016). Genome-wide association study of pathological gambling. European Psychiatry, 36, 38-46. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.04.001

Genome-wide association study of pathological gambling

2016

Journal Article

Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

Silventoinen, Karri, Jelenkovic, Aline, Sund, Reijo, Hur, Yoon-Mi, Yokoyama, Yoshie, Honda, Chika, Hjelmborg, Jacob B., Moller, Soren, Ooki, Syuichi, Aaltonen, Sari, Ji, Fuling, Ning, Feng, Pang, Zengchang, Rebato, Esther, Busjahn, Andreas, Kandler, Christian, Saudino, Kimberly J., Jang, Kerry L., Cozen, Wendy, Hwang, Amie E., MacK, Thomas M., Gao, Wenjing, Yu, Canqing, Li, Liming, Corley, Robin P., Huibregtse, Brooke M., Christensen, Kaare, Skytthe, Axel, Kyvik, Kirsten O. ... Kaprio, Jaakko (2016). Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 104 (2), 371-379. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.130252

Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

2016

Journal Article

Variation and heritability in hair diameter and curvature in an Australian twin sample

Ho, Yvonne Y. W., Brims, Mark, McNevin, Dennis, Spector, Timothy D., Martin, Nicholas G. and Medland, Sarah E. (2016). Variation and heritability in hair diameter and curvature in an Australian twin sample. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19 (4), 351-358. doi: 10.1017/thg.2016.45

Variation and heritability in hair diameter and curvature in an Australian twin sample

2016

Journal Article

Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is highly heritable

Colodro-Conde, Lucía, Jern, Patrick, Johansson, Ada, Sánchez-Romera, Juan F., Lind, Penelope A., Painter, Jodie N., Ordoñana, Juan R. and Medland, Sarah E. (2016). Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is highly heritable. Behavior Genetics, 46 (4), 481-491. doi: 10.1007/s10519-016-9781-7

Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is highly heritable

2016

Journal Article

Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts

Jelenkovic, Aline, Sund, Reijo, Hur, Yoon-Mi, Yokoyama, Yoshie, Hjelmborg, Jacob V. B., Miller, Soren, Honda, Chika, Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Pedersen, Nancy L., Ooki, Syuichi, Aaltonen, Sari, Stazi, Maria A., Fagnani, Corrado, D'Ippolito, Cristina, Freitas, Duarte L., Maia, Jose Antonio, Ji, Fuling, Ning, Feng, Pang, Zengchang, Rebato, Esther, Busjahn, Andreas, Kandler, Christian, Saudino, Kimberly J., Jang, Kerry L., Cozen, Wendy, Hwang, Amie E., Mack, Thomas M., Gao, Wenjing, Yu, Canqing ... Silventoinen, Karri (2016). Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 28496. doi: 10.1038/srep28496

Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts

2016

Journal Article

Genome-wide analysis of over 106000 individuals identifies 9 neuroticism-associated loci

Smith, D. J., Escott-Price, V., Davies, G., Bailey, M. E. S., Colodro-Conde, L., Ward, J., Vedernikov, A., Marioni, R., Cullen, B., Lyall, D., Hagenaars, S. P., Liewald, D. C. M., Luciano, M., Gale, C. R., Ritchie, S. J., Hayward, C., Nicholl, B., Bulik-Sullivan, B., Adams, M., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Graham, N., Mackay, D., Evans, J., Smith, B. H., Porteous, D. J., Medland, S. E., Martin, N. G., Holmans, P., McIntosh, A. M. ... O'Donovan, M. C. (2016). Genome-wide analysis of over 106000 individuals identifies 9 neuroticism-associated loci. Molecular Psychiatry, 21 (6), 749-757. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.49

Genome-wide analysis of over 106000 individuals identifies 9 neuroticism-associated loci

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

Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

2016

Journal Article

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

Okbay, Aysu, Beauchamp, Jonathan P., Fontana, Mark Alan, Lee, James J., Pers, Tune H., Rietveld, Cornelius A., Turley, Patrick, Chen, Guo-Bo, Emilsson, Valur, Meddens, S. Fleur W., Oskarsson, Sven, Pickrell, Joseph K., Thom, Kevin, Timshel, Pascal, de Vlaming, Ronald, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Bacelis, Jonas, Baumbach, Clemens, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Brandsma, Johannes H., Concas, Maria Pina, Derringer, Jaime, Furlotte, Nicholas A., Galesloot, Tessel E., Girotto, Giorgia, Gupta, Richa, Hall, Leanne M., Harris, Sarah E. ... Benjamin, Daniel J. (2016). Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature, 533 (7604), 539-542. doi: 10.1038/nature17671

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

2016

Journal Article

Common genetic variants influence whorls in fingerprint patterns

Ho, Yvonne Y. W., Evans, David M., Montgomery, Grant W., Henders, Anjali K., Kemp, John P., Timpson, Nicholas J., Pourcain, Beate St., Heath, Andrew C., Madden, Pamela A. F., Loesch, Danuta Z., McNevin, Dennis, Daniel, Runa, Davey-Smith, George, Martin, Nicholas G. and Medland, Sarah E. (2016). Common genetic variants influence whorls in fingerprint patterns. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 136 (4), 859-862. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2015.10.062

Common genetic variants influence whorls in fingerprint patterns

2016

Journal Article

Twin's Birth-Order Differences in Height and Body Mass Index From Birth to Old Age: A Pooled Study of 26 Twin Cohorts Participating in the CODATwins Project

Yokoyama, Yoshie, Jelenkovic, Aline, Sund, Reijo, Sung, Joohon, Hopper, John L., Ooki, Syuichi, Heikkila, Kauko, Aaltonen, Sari, Tarnoki, Adam D., Tarnoki, David L., Willemsen, Gonneke, Bartels, Meike, van Beijsterveldt, Toos C. E. M., Saudino, Kimberly J., Cutler, Tessa L., Nelson, Tracy L., Whitfield, Keith E., Wardle, Jane, Llewellyn, Clare H., Fisher, Abigail, He, Mingguang, Ding, Xiaohu, Bjerregaard-Andersen, Morten, Beck-Nielsen, Henning, Sodemann, Morten, Song, Yun-Mi, Yang, Sarah, Lee, Kayoung, Jeong, Hoe-Uk ... Silventoinen, Karri (2016). Twin's Birth-Order Differences in Height and Body Mass Index From Birth to Old Age: A Pooled Study of 26 Twin Cohorts Participating in the CODATwins Project. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19 (2), 112-124. doi: 10.1017/thg.2016.11

Twin's Birth-Order Differences in Height and Body Mass Index From Birth to Old Age: A Pooled Study of 26 Twin Cohorts Participating in the CODATwins Project

2016

Journal Article

Genome-wide polygenic scores for age at onset of alcohol dependence and association with alcohol-related measures

Kapoor, M., Chou, Y-L, Edenberg, H. J., Foroud, T., Martin, N. G., Madden, P A F, Wang, J. C., Bertelsen, S., Wetherill, L., Brooks, A., Chan, G., Hesselbrock, V., Kuperman, S., Medland, S. E., Montgomery, G., Tischfield, J., Whitfield, J. B., Bierut, L. J., Heath, A. C., Bucholz, K. K., Goate, A. M. and Agrawal, A. (2016). Genome-wide polygenic scores for age at onset of alcohol dependence and association with alcohol-related measures. Translational Psychiatry, 6 (3) e761, e761-e761. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.27

Genome-wide polygenic scores for age at onset of alcohol dependence and association with alcohol-related measures

2016

Journal Article

Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group

Schmaal, L., Hibar, D. P., Samann, P. G., Hall, G. B., Baune, B. T., Jahanshad, N., Cheung, J. W., van Erp, T. G. M., Bos, D., Ikram, M. A., Vernooij, M. W., Niessen, W. J., Tiemeier, H., Hofman, A., Wittfeld, K., Grabe, H. J., Janowitz, D., Bulow, R., Selonke, M., Volzke, H., Grotegerd, D., Dannlowski, U., Arolt, V., Opel, N., Heindel, W., Kugel, H., Hoehn, D., Czisch, M., Couvy-Duchesne, B. ... Veltman, D. J. (2016). Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group. Molecular Psychiatry, 22 (6), 900-909. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.60

Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group

2016

Journal Article

Genome-wide association study of lifetime cannabis use based on a large meta-analytic sample of 32 330 subjects from the International Cannabis Consortium

Stringer, S., Minică, C. C., Verweij, K. J. H., Mbarek, H., Bernard, M., Derringer, J., van Eijk, K. R., Isen, J. D., Loukola, A., Maciejewsk, D. F., Mihailov, E., van der Most, P. J., Sánchez-Mora, C., Roos, L., Sherva, R., Walters, R., Ware, J. J., Abdellaoui, A., Bigdeli, T. B., Branje, S. J. T., Brown, S. A., Bruinenberg, M., Casas, M., Esko, T., Garcia-Martinez, I., Gordon, S. D., Harris, J. M., Hartman, C. A., Henders, A. K. ... Vink, J. M. (2016). Genome-wide association study of lifetime cannabis use based on a large meta-analytic sample of 32 330 subjects from the International Cannabis Consortium. Translational Psychiatry, 6 (3) e769, e769-e769. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.36

Genome-wide association study of lifetime cannabis use based on a large meta-analytic sample of 32 330 subjects from the International Cannabis Consortium

2016

Journal Article

Common polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population

Clarke, T-K, Lupton, M. K., Fernandez-Pujals, A. M., Starr, J., Davies, G., Cox, S., Pattie, A., Liewald, D. C., Hall, L. S., MacIntyre, D. J., Smith, B. H., Hocking, L. J., Padmanabhan, S., Thomson, P. A., Hayward, C., Hansell, N. K., Montgomery, G. W., Medland, S. E., Martin, N. G., Wright, M. J., Porteous, D. J., Deary, I. J. and McIntosh, A. M. (2016). Common polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population. Molecular Psychiatry, 21 (3), 419-425. doi: 10.1038/mp.2015.12

Common polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population

2016

Journal Article

Cohort profile: Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy genetics consortium (NVP Genetics Consortium)

Colodro-Conde, Lucıa, Cross, Simone M., Lind, Penelope A., Painter, Jodie N., Gunst, Annika, Jern, Patrick, Johansson, Ada, Lund Maegbaek, Merete, Munk-Olsen, Trine, Nyholt, Dale R., Ordonana, Juan R., Paternoster, Lavinia, Sanchez-Romera, Juan F., Wright, Margaret J. and Medland, Sarah E. (2016). Cohort profile: Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy genetics consortium (NVP Genetics Consortium). International Journal of Epidemiology, 46 (2) e17, e17. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv360

Cohort profile: Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy genetics consortium (NVP Genetics Consortium)

2016

Journal Article

Impact of a cis-associated gene expression SNP on chromosome 20q11.22 on bipolar disorder susceptibility, hippocampal structure and cognitive performance

Li, Ming, Luo, Xiong-Jian, Landén, Mikael, Bergen, Sarah E., Hultman, Christina M., Li, Xiao, Zhang, Wen, Yao, Yong-Gang, Zhang, Chen, Liu, Jiewei, Mattheisen, Manuel, Cichon, Sven, Mühleisen, Thomas W., Degenhardt, Franziska A., Nöthen, Markus M., Schulze, Thomas G., Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria, Li, Hao, Fuller, Chris K., Chen, Chunhui, Dong, Qi, Chen, Chuansheng, Jamain, Stéphane, Leboyer, Marion, Bellivier, Frank, Etain, Bruno, Kahn, Jean-Pierre, Henry, Chantal, Preisig, Martin ... The Swedish Bipolar Study Group (2016). Impact of a cis-associated gene expression SNP on chromosome 20q11.22 on bipolar disorder susceptibility, hippocampal structure and cognitive performance. British Journal of Psychiatry, 208 (2), 128-137. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.156976

Impact of a cis-associated gene expression SNP on chromosome 20q11.22 on bipolar disorder susceptibility, hippocampal structure and cognitive performance

2016

Journal Article

Head motion and inattention/hyperactivity share common genetic influences: Implications for fMRI studies of ADHD

Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste, Ebejer, Jane L., Gillespie, Nathan A., Duffy, David L., Hickie, Ian B., Thompson, Paul M., Martin, Nicholas G., de Zubicaray, Greig I., McMahon, Katie L., Medland, Sarah E. and Wright, Margaret J. (2016). Head motion and inattention/hyperactivity share common genetic influences: Implications for fMRI studies of ADHD. PLoS One, 11 (1) e0146271, 1-19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146271

Head motion and inattention/hyperactivity share common genetic influences: Implications for fMRI studies of ADHD

2016

Conference Publication

Heritability of different aggression phenotypes in an Australian and a Dutch cohort

Conde, Lucia Colodro, Martin, Nicholas, Hatemi, Peter, Boomsma, Dorret, Middeldorp, Christel, van Beijsterveldt, Toos, Bartels, Meike and Medland, Sarah (2016). Heritability of different aggression phenotypes in an Australian and a Dutch cohort. 46th Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association, Brisbane, Australia, Jun 20-23, 2016. NEW YORK: SPRINGER.

Heritability of different aggression phenotypes in an Australian and a Dutch cohort

2016

Journal Article

Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

Schmaal, L., Veltman, D. J., van Erp, T. G. M., Sämann, P. G., Frodl, T., Jahanshad, N., Loehrer, E., Tiemeier, H., Hofman, A., Niessen, W. J., Vernooij, M. W., Ikram, M. A., Wittfeld, K., Grabe, H. J., Block, A., Hegenscheid, K., Völzke, H., Hoehn, D., Czisch, M., Lagopoulos, J., Hatton, S. N., Hickie, I. B., Goya-Maldonado, R., Krämer, B., Gruber, O., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Rentería, M. E., Strike, L. T., Mills, N. T. ... Hibar, D. P. (2016). Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group. Molecular Psychiatry, 21 (6), 806-812. doi: 10.1038/mp.2015.69

Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • 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

    Genetic and environmental risk factors influencing mood disorders

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Genetic and environmental risk factors influencing mood disorders

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Statistical Genetic Analyses of Major Depressive Disorder

    Associate Advisor

Completed supervision

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