Miruna Carmen Barbu

Employment

• University of Edinburgh Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2019 - Present
• University of Edinburgh Public Engagement Officer
  2019 - 2019

Education

• University of Edinburgh PhD
  2016 - 2020

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (23)

• A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case-control classification and trans-ancestry comparison
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.27.23297630
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• Pathway-Based Polygenic Risk Scores for Schizophrenia and Associations With Reported Psychotic-like Experiences and Neuroimaging Phenotypes in the UK Biobank
  Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.03.004
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• Epigenome-wide association study of global cortical volumes in generation Scotland: Scottish family health study
  Epigenetics 2022 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1997404
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• Early-life inflammatory markers and subsequent episodes of depression and psychotic experiences in the ALSPAC birth cohort
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.12.22277542
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• Pathway-based polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and associations with clinical and neuroimaging phenotypes in UK Biobank
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.12.22277553
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• Complex trait methylation scores in the prediction of major depressive disorder
  eBioMedicine 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104000
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• Methylome-wide association study of antidepressant use in Generation Scotland and the Netherlands Twin Register implicates the innate immune system
  Molecular Psychiatry 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01412-7
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• Comparing personalized brain-based and genetic risk scores for major depressive disorder in large population samples of adults and adolescents
  European Psychiatry 2022 DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2301
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• Epigenome and phenome study reveals circulating markers pertinent to brain health
  2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.03.21263066
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• DNA methylome-wide association study of genetic risk for depression implicates antigen processing and immune responses
  2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259731
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• Methylome-wide association study of early life stressors and adult mental health reveals a relationship between birth date and cell type composition in blood
  2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.10.21253201
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• Structural brain correlates of serum and epigenetic markers of inflammation in major depressive disorder
  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.11.024
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• Expression quantitative trait loci-derived scores and white matter microstructure in UK Biobank: a novel approach to integrating genetics and neuroimaging
  Translational Psychiatry 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-0724-y
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• Methylome-wide association study of antidepressant use in Generation Scotland and the Netherlands Twin Register implicates the innate immune system
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.06.20207621
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• Automated classification of depression from structural brain measures across two independent community‐based cohorts
  Human Brain Mapping 2020 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25095
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• Epigenetic prediction of major depressive disorder
  Molecular Psychiatry 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-020-0808-3
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• Brain Structural Associations with Depression in a Large Early Adolescent Sample (The ABCD Cohort)
  2020 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3719896
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• Associations between vascular risk factors and brain MRI indices in UK Biobank
  European Heart Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz100
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• Epigenetic prediction of major depressive disorder
  2019 DOI: 10.1101/19001123
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• Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions
  Nature Neuroscience 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-018-0326-7
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