Overview
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
Works
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2020
Journal Article
Rethinking Measurement of Parenting Stress in ADHD-Affected Families: A Principal Components Analysis of the Disruptive Behaviour Stress Inventory
Maclean, Emmalie I., Andrew, Brooke, Lind, Penelope A. and Medland, Sarah E. (2020). Rethinking Measurement of Parenting Stress in ADHD-Affected Families: A Principal Components Analysis of the Disruptive Behaviour Stress Inventory. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29 (11), 3253-3264. doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01799-x
2019
Journal Article
Altered cortical brain structure and increased risk for disease seen decades after perinatal exposure to maternal smoking: a study of 9000 adults in the UK Biobank
Salminen, Lauren E., Wilcox, Rand R., Zhu, Alyssa H., Riedel, Brandalyn C., Ching, Christopher R K, Rashid, Faisal, Thomopoulos, Sophia I., Saremi, Arvin, Harrison, Marc B., Ragothaman, Anjanibhargavi, Knight, Victoria, Boyle, Christina P., Medland, Sarah E., Thompson, Paul M. and Jahanshad, Neda (2019). Altered cortical brain structure and increased risk for disease seen decades after perinatal exposure to maternal smoking: a study of 9000 adults in the UK Biobank. Cerebral Cortex, 29 (12), 5217-5233. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz060
2019
Journal Article
Full exploitation of high dimensionality in brain imaging: The JPND working group statement and findings
Adams, Hieab H.H., Roshchupkin, Gennady V., DeCarli, Charles, Franke, Barbara, Grabe, Hans J., Habes, Mohamad, Jahanshad, Neda, Medland, Sarah E., Niessen, Wiro, Satizabal, Claudia L., Schmidt, Reinhold, Seshadri, Sudha, Teumer, Alexander, Thompson, Paul M., Vernooij, Meike W., Wittfeld, Katharina and Ikram, M. Arfan (2019). Full exploitation of high dimensionality in brain imaging: The JPND working group statement and findings. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 11 (C), 286-290. doi: 10.1016/j.dadm.2019.02.003
2019
Journal Article
Concordance of genetic variation that increases risk for tourette syndrome and that influences its underlying neurocircuitry
Mufford, Mary, Cheung, Josh, Jahanshad, Neda, van der Merwe, Celia, Ding, Linda, Groenewold, Nynke, Koen, Nastassja, Chimusa, Emile R., Dalvie, Shareefa, Ramesar, Raj, Knowles, James A., Lochner, Christine, Hibar, Derrek P., Paschou, Peristera, van den Heuvel, Odile A., Medland, Sarah E., Scharf, Jeremiah M., Mathews, Carol A., Thompson, Paul M., Stein, Dan J. and Psychiatric Genomics Consortium - Tourette Syndrome working group (2019). Concordance of genetic variation that increases risk for tourette syndrome and that influences its underlying neurocircuitry. Translational Psychiatry, 9 (1) 120. doi: 10.1038/s41398-019-0452-3
2019
Journal Article
The CODATwins Project: the current status and recent findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins
Silventoinen, K., Jelenkovic, A., Yokoyama, Y., Sund, R., Sugawara, M., Tanaka, M., Matsumoto, S., Bogl, L. H., Freitas, D. L., Maia, J. A., Hjelmborg, J. V.B., Aaltonen, S., Piirtola, M., Latvala, A., Calais-Ferreira, L., Oliveira, V. C., Ferreira, P. H., Ji, F., Ning, F., Pang, Z., Ordoñana, J. R., Sánchez-Romera, J. F., Colodro-Conde, L., Burt, S. A., Klump, K. L., Martin, N. G., Medland, S. E., Montgomery, G. W., Kandler, C. ... Kaprio, J. (2019). The CODATwins Project: the current status and recent findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22 (6) PII S1832427419000355, 1-9. doi: 10.1017/thg.2019.35
2019
Journal Article
Associations between polygenic risk for tobacco and alcohol use and liability to tobacco and alcohol use, and psychiatric disorders in an independent sample of 13,999 Australian adults
Chang, Lun-Hsien, Whitfield, John B., Liu, Mengzhen, Medland, Sarah E., Hickie, Ian B., Martin, Nicholas G., Verhulst, Brad, Heath, Andrew C., Madden, Pamela A., Statham, Dixie J., Gillespie, Nathan A. and GSCAN Consortium (2019). Associations between polygenic risk for tobacco and alcohol use and liability to tobacco and alcohol use, and psychiatric disorders in an independent sample of 13,999 Australian adults. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 205 107704, 107704. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107704
2019
Journal Article
Novel genetic loci affecting facial shape variation in humans
Xiong, Ziyi, Dankova, Gabriela, Howe, Laurence J., Lee, Myoung Keun, Hysi, Pirro G., de Jong, Markus A., Zhu, Gu, Adhikari, Kaustubh, Li, Dan, Li, Yi, Pan, Bo, Feingold, Eleanor, Marazita, Mary L., Shaffer, John R., McAloney, Kerrie, Xu, Shu-Hua, Jin, Li, Wang, Sijia, de Vrij, Femke Ms, Lendemeijer, Bas, Richmond, Stephen, Zhurov, Alexei, Lewis, Sarah, Sharp, Gemma C., Paternoster, Lavinia, Thompson, Holly, Gonzalez-Jose, Rolando, Bortolini, Maria Catira, Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel ... Kayser, Manfred (2019). Novel genetic loci affecting facial shape variation in humans. eLife, 8 e49898. doi: 10.7554/eLife.49898
2019
Conference Publication
GWAS on the Internet: systematic review of online news and blog articles about GWAS publications from 2005 to 2018
Morosoli, Jose J., Colodro-Conde, Lucia, Barlow, Fiona K. and Medland, Sarah (2019). GWAS on the Internet: systematic review of online news and blog articles about GWAS publications from 2005 to 2018. 49th Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association (BGA), Stockholm Sweden, Jun 26-29, 2019. NEW YORK: SPRINGER.
2019
Journal Article
Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder in a study of 54 datasets
Postema, Merel C., van Rooij, Daan, Anagnostou, Evdokia, Arango, Celso, Auzias, Guillaume, Behrmann, Marlene, Filho, Geraldo Busatto, Calderoni, Sara, Calvo, Rosa, Daly, Eileen, Deruelle, Christine, Di Martino, Adriana, Dinstein, Ilan, Duran, Fabio Luis S., Durston, Sarah, Ecker, Christine, Ehrlich, Stefan, Fair, Damien, Fedor, Jennifer, Feng, Xin, Fitzgerald, Jackie, Floris, Dorothea L., Freitag, Christine M., Gallagher, Louise, Glahn, David C., Gori, Ilaria, Haar, Shlomi, Hoekstra, Liesbeth, Jahanshad, Neda ... Francks, Clyde (2019). Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder in a study of 54 datasets. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 4958, 4958. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13005-8
2019
Journal Article
Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes
Clark, David W., Okada, Yukinori, Moore, Kristjan H. S., Mason, Dan, Pirastu, Nicola, Gandin, Ilaria, Mattsson, Hannele, Barnes, Catriona L. K., Lin, Kuang, Zhao, Jing Hua, Deelen, Patrick, Rohde, Rebecca, Schurmann, Claudia, Guo, Xiuqing, Giulianini, Franco, Zhang, Weihua, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Karlsson, Robert, Bao, Yanchun, Bartz, Traci M., Baumbach, Clemens, Biino, Ginevra, Bixley, Matthew J., Brumat, Marco, Chai, Jin-Fang, Corre, Tanguy, Cousminer, Diana L., Dekker, Annelot M., Eccles, David A. ... Wilson, James F. (2019). Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 4957, 4957. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12283-6
2019
Journal Article
Association of copy number variation of the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 region with cortical and subcortical morphology and cognition
Van Der Meer, Dennis, Sønderby, Ida E., Kaufmann, Tobias, Walters, G. Bragi, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Ames, David, Amunts, Katrin, Andersson, Micael, Armstrong, Nicola J., Bernard, Manon, Blackburn, Nicholas B., Blangero, John, Boomsma, Dorret I., Brodaty, Henry, Brouwer, Rachel M., Bülow, Robin, Cahn, Wiepke, Calhoun, Vince D., Caspers, Svenja, Cavalleri, Gianpiero L., Ching, Christopher R. K., Cichon, Sven, Ciufolini, Simone, Corvin, Aiden, Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto, Curran, Joanne E., Dalvie, Shareefa, Dazzan, Paola, De Geus, Eco J. C. ... Andreassen, Ole A. (2019). Association of copy number variation of the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 region with cortical and subcortical morphology and cognition. JAMA Psychiatry, 77 (4), 1-11. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.3779
2019
Journal Article
Genome-wide association and epidemiological analyses reveal common genetic origins between uterine leiomyomata and endometriosis
Gallagher, C. S., Mäkinen, N., Harris, H. R., Rahmioglu, N., Uimari, O., Cook, J. P., Shigesi, N., Ferreira, T., Velez-Edwards, D. R., Edwards, T. L., Mortlock, S., Ruhioglu, Z., Day, F., Becker, C. M., Karhunen, V., Martikainen, H., Järvelin, M.-R., Cantor, R. M., Ridker, P. M., Terry, K. L., Buring, J. E., Gordon, S. D., Medland, S. E., Montgomery, G. W., Nyholt, D. R., Hinds, D. A., Tung, J. Y., Perry, J. R. B., Lind, P. A. ... Morton, C. C. (2019). Genome-wide association and epidemiological analyses reveal common genetic origins between uterine leiomyomata and endometriosis. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 4857, 4857. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12536-4
2019
Journal Article
Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals
Satizabal, Claudia L., Adams, Hieab H. H., Hibar, Derrek P., White, Charles C., Knol, Maria J., Stein, Jason L., Scholz, Markus, Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan, Jahanshad, Neda, Roshchupkin, Gennady V., Smith, Albert V., Bis, Joshua C., Jian, Xueqiu, Luciano, Michelle, Hofer, Edith, Teumer, Alexander, van der Lee, Sven J., Yang, Jingyun, Yanek, Lisa R., Lee, Tom V., Li, Shuo, Hu, Yanhui, Koh, Jia Yu, Eicher, John D., Desrivières, Sylvane, Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro, Chauhan, Ganesh, Athanasiu, Lavinia, Rentería, Miguel E. ... Ikram, M. Arfan (2019). Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals. Nature Genetics, 51 (11), 1624-1636. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0511-y
2019
Conference Publication
ANTICIPATING INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES TO PRECISION PSYCHIATRY BASED ON GENETIC INFORMATION: THE ROLE OF GENETIC LITERACY, COGNITIVE STYLES, AND PERSONAL VALUES
Garcia, Jose Morosoli, Grasby, Katrina, Conde, Lucia Colodro, Barlow, Fiona K. and Medland, Sarah E. (2019). ANTICIPATING INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES TO PRECISION PSYCHIATRY BASED ON GENETIC INFORMATION: THE ROLE OF GENETIC LITERACY, COGNITIVE STYLES, AND PERSONAL VALUES. 27th World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), Los Angeles Ca, Oct 26-31, 2019. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.07.196
2019
Conference Publication
Insights from the largest genetic study of sporadic and recurrent miscarriage
Laisk, T., Soares, A., Ferreira, T., Painter, J. N., Laber, S., Bacelis, J., Chen, C., Lepamets, M., Lin, K., Liu, S., Millwood, I. Y., Ramu, A., Southcombe, J., Andersen, M. S., Yang, L., Becker, C., Gordon, S. D., Bybjerg-Grauholm, J., Helgeland, O., Hougaard, D. M., Jin, X., Johansson, S., Juodakis, J., Kartsonaki, C., Kukuskina, V., Lind, P., Metspalu, A., Montgomery, G. W., Morris, A. P. ... Lindgren, C. M. (2019). Insights from the largest genetic study of sporadic and recurrent miscarriage. 52nd Conference of the European-Society-of-Human-Genetics (ESHG), Gothenburg Sweden, Jun 15-18, 2019. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP.
2019
Journal Article
Public understanding of behavioral genetics: Integrating heuristic thinking, motivated reasoning and planned social change theories for better communication strategies
Morosoli, J. J., Colodro-Conde, L., Barlow, F. K. and Medland, S. E. (2019). Public understanding of behavioral genetics: Integrating heuristic thinking, motivated reasoning and planned social change theories for better communication strategies. Behavior Genetics, 49 (5), 469-477. doi: 10.1007/s10519-019-09964-9
2019
Other Outputs
Shared Genetic Risk between Eating Disorder- and Substance-Use-Related Phenotypes: Evidence from Genome-Wide Association Studies
Munn-Chernoff, Melissa A., Johnson, Emma C., Chou, Yi-Ling, Coleman, Jonathan R.I., Thornton, Laura M., Walters, Raymond K., Yilmaz, Zeynep, Baker, Jessica H., Hübel, Christopher, Gordon, Scott, Medland, Sarah E., Watson, Hunna J., Gaspar, Héléna A., Bryois, Julien, Hinney, Anke, Leppä, Virpi M., Mattheisen, Manuel, Ripke, Stephan, Yao, Shuyang, Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola, Hanscombe, Ken B., Adan, Roger A.H., Alfredsson, Lars, Ando, Tetsuya, Andreassen, Ole A., Berrettini, Wade H., Boehm, Ilka, Boni, Claudette, Perica, Vesna Boraska ... Agrawal, Arpana (2019). Shared Genetic Risk between Eating Disorder- and Substance-Use-Related Phenotypes: Evidence from Genome-Wide Association Studies. doi: 10.1101/741512
2019
Journal Article
Metabolomics reveals a link between homocysteine and lipid metabolism and leukocyte telomere length: the ENGAGE consortium
Van der Spek, Ashley, Broer, Linda, Draisma, Harmen H. M., Pool, René, Albrecht, Eva, Beekman, Marian, Mangino, Massimo, Raag, Mait, Nyholt, Dale R., Dharuri, Harish K., Codd, Veryan, Amin, Najaf, de Geus, Eco J. C., Deelen, Joris, Demirkan, Ayse, Yet, Idil, Fischer, Krista, Haller, Toomas, Henders, Anjali K., Isaacs, Aaron, Medland, Sarah E., Montgomery, Grant W., Mooijaart, Simon P., Strauch, Konstantin, Suchiman, H. Eka D., Vaarhorst, Anika A. M., van Heemst, Diana, Wang-Sattler, Rui, Whitfield, John B. ... Gieger, Christian (2019). Metabolomics reveals a link between homocysteine and lipid metabolism and leukocyte telomere length: the ENGAGE consortium. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 11623, 11623. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47282-6
2019
Journal Article
Genetic and environmental risk factors in the non-medical use of over-the-counter or prescribed analgesics, and their relationship to major classes of licit and illicit substance use and misuse in a population-based sample of young adult twins
Gillespie, Nathan A., Bates, Timothy C., Hickie, Ian B., Medland, Sarah E., Verhulst, Brad, Kirkpatrick, Robert M., Kendler, Kenneth S., Martin, Nicholas G. and Benotsch, Eric G. (2019). Genetic and environmental risk factors in the non-medical use of over-the-counter or prescribed analgesics, and their relationship to major classes of licit and illicit substance use and misuse in a population-based sample of young adult twins. Addiction, 114 (12) add.14750, 2229-2240. doi: 10.1111/add.14750
2019
Journal Article
Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa
Watson, Hunna J., Yilmaz, Zeynep, Thornton, Laura M., Hübel, Christopher, Coleman, Jonathan R. I., Gaspar, Héléna A., Bryois, Julien, Hinney, Anke, Leppä, Virpi M., Mattheisen, Manuel, Medland, Sarah E., Ripke, Stephan, Yao, Shuyang, Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola, Hanscombe, Ken B., Purves, Kirstin L., Adan, Roger A. H., Alfredsson, Lars, Ando, Tetsuya, Andreassen, Ole A., Baker, Jessica H., Berrettini, Wade H., Boehm, Ilka, Boni, Claudette, Perica, Vesna Boraska, Buehren, Katharina, Burghardt, Roland, Cassina, Matteo, Cichon, Sven ... Bulik, Cynthia M. (2019). Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa. Nature Genetics, 51 (8), 1207-1214. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0439-2
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetic and environmental risk factors influencing mood disorders
Principal Advisor
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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
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetic and environmental risk factors influencing mood disorders
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Statistical Genetic Analyses of Major Depressive Disorder
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the influence of genetics and heritability on the heterogeneity of ADHD presentations
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Naomi Wray
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Motivated cognition and genetics: A psychological perspective on public understanding of behaviour genetics
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Fiona Barlow, Dr Lucia Colodro-Conde
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Evaluation of the obesity paradox in diabetes: a longitudinal case control study
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Forensically Relevant Applications of Genome-Wide Association Studies
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Nick Martin
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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: Dr Enda Byrne
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Genetic influences on substance use behaviour, substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Naomi Wray, Professor Nick Martin, Dr Lucia Colodro-Conde
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Subcortical Brain Anatomy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Nick Martin
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
The genetics of complex human behaviour: Cannabis use, personality, sexuality and mating
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Nick Martin
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