Bernardo de A.P.C. Maciel

This study creates a transcriptomic atlas of the human ventral tegmental area, identifies cell types and their functional connectivity, and links them to psychiatric disorders and BMI.

The paper identifies genetic variants associated with functional brain connectivity in a large cohort, linking them to neurodevelopment and health-related traits.

This study identifies 142 genes associated with both schizophrenia and height, finding enrichment in immune response genes and partial genetic overlap with white blood cell count.

This study aggregates rare variants in genes associated with brain volume variation in the UK Biobank and finds links to rare brain disorders.

This paper introduces FLAMES, a framework that improves gene prioritization in GWAS loci by integrating SNP-based and convergence-based evidence, outperforming single-modality approaches.