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Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research

Gerard D Schellenberg

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Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Contact information
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Room 605B, Stellar Chance Laboratories
422 Curie Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Graduate Group Affiliations
Education:
B.S. (Biochemistry/minor: Cell Biology)
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, 1973.
Ph.D. (Biochemistry/minor: Cell Biology)
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, 1978.
Post-Graduate Training
National Science Foundation Undergraduate, Summer Research Program, Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Riverside, CA, 1972-1972.
National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer Research Program, Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Riverside, California, 1972-1972.
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, RG-20, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1978-1979.
Senior Research Fellow, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1979-1982.
NIH Post Doctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Health, 1980-1982.
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1982-1983.
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Selected Publications

Hopfner F, Tietz AK, Ruf VC, Ross OA, et al: Common variants near ZIC1 and ZIC4 in autopsy-confirmed multiple system atrophy. Mov Disord 37(10): 2110-2121, Oct 2022.

Eissman JM, Dumitrescu L, Mahoney ER, et al: Sex differences in the genetic architecture of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. Brain 145(7): 2541-2554, Jul 2022.

Rajabli F, Beecham GW, Hendrie HC, et al: A locus at 19q13.31 significantly reduces the ApoE ε4 risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in African Ancestry. PLoS Genet 18(7), Jul 2022.

Chung J, Das A, Sun X, et al: Genome-wide association and multi-omics studies identify MGMT as a novel risk gene for Alzheimer's disease among women. Alzheimers Dement 10, Jun 2022.

Bellenguez C, Küçükali F, Jansen IE, et al: New insights on the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s and related dementias. Nat Genet 54(4): 412-436, Apr 2022.

Godrich G, Martin ER, Schellenberg GD, Pericak-Vance MA, Cuccaro M, Scott WK, Kukull W, Montine T, Beecham GW: Neuropathological lesions and their contribution to dementia and cognitive impairment in a heterogeneous clinical population. Alzheimers Dement 18(12): 2403-2412, Dec 2022.

Vardarajan BN, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Piriz AL, Lantigua RA, Medrano M, Rivera D, Jiménez-Velázquez IZ, Martin E, Pericak-Vance MA, Bush W, Farrer L, Haines JL, Wang LS, Leung YY, Schellenberg G, Kukull W, De Jager P, Bennett DA, Schneider JA; Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project, Mayeux R: Progranulin mutations in clinical and neuropathological Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 18(12): 2458-2467, Dec 2022.

Kuksa PP, Liu C-L, Fu W, Qu L, Zhao Y, Katanic Z, Kuzma AB, Ho P-C, Tzeng K-T, Valladares O, Chou S-Y, Naj AC, Schellenberg GD, Wang L-S, Leung YY: Alzheimer's Disease variant portal: a catalog of genetic findings for Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 86(1): 461-477, 2022.

Holstege H, Hulsman M, Charbonnier C, et al: Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as novel risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease. Nat Genet 54(12): 1786-1794, Dec 2022.

Gao Y, Felsky D, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Sanjeev S, Rentería MA, Ma Y, Klein H, Cosentino S, De Jager P, Bennett DA, Brickman AM, Schellenberg GD, Mayeux R, Barral S: Integration of GWAS and brain transcriptomic analyses in a multi-ethnic sample of 35,245 older adults identifies DCDC2 gene as predictor of episodic memory maintenance. Alzheimers Dement 18(10): 1797-1811, Oct 2022.

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