Mark James Adams

Employment

• University of Edinburgh Senior Research Fellow
  2021 - Present
• University of Edinburgh Data Scientist
  2017 - 2021
• University of Edinburgh Research Fellow
  2015 - 2017
• University of Sheffield Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2012 - 2014

Education

• University of Edinburgh PhD Psychology
  2008 - 2012
• University of Edinburgh MSc Quantitative Genetics & Genome Analysis
  2007 - 2008
• Cornell University AB Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
  1999 - 2003

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (66)

• White matter, cognition and psychotic-like experiences in UK Biobank
  Psychological Medicine 2023 DOI: 10.1017/S0033291721004244
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• Transcriptome-based polygenic score links depression-related corticolimbic gene expression changes to sex-specific brain morphology and depression risk
  Neuropsychopharmacology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-01189-x
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• Associations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample
  2021 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/swcnr
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• Associations between major psychiatric disorder polygenic risk scores and blood-based markers in UK biobank
  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2021.06.002
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• Genetic and shared couple environmental contributions to smoking and alcohol use in the UK population
  Molecular Psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0607-x
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• Cohort profile for the STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study: A depression-focused investigation of Generation Scotland, using detailed clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging assessments [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
  2021 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15538.2
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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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• Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts
  Alex S. F. Kwong, Rebecca M. Pearson, Mark J. Adams

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  • Kate Northstone
  • Kate M. Tilling
  • Daniel Major‐Smith
  • Chloe Fawns‐Ritchie
  • Helen Bould
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  The British Journal of Psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2020.242
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• DNA methylation signatures of aggression and closely related constructs: A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide studies across the lifespan
  Jenny van Dongen, Fiona A. Hagenbeek, Matthew J Suderman

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  • Peter J. Roetman
  • Karen Sugden
  • Andreas G. Chiocchetti
  • Khadeeja Ismail
  • Rosa H. Mulder
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  Molecular Psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-020-00987-x
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• Educational attainment impacts drinking behaviors and risk for alcohol dependence: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study with ~780,000 participants
  Molecular Psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0535-9
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• Sex-stratified genome-wide association study of multisite chronic pain in UK Biobank
  PLOS Genetics 2021 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009428
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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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• Grey and white matter associations of psychotic-like experiences in a general population sample (UK Biobank)
  Translational Psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-01131-7
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• Associations Between Major Psychiatric Disorder Polygenic Risk Scores and Blood-Based Markers in UK Biobank
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.06.20227066
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• Genetic stratification of depression by neuroticism: revisiting a diagnostic tradition
  Psychological Medicine 2020 DOI: 10.1017/S0033291719002629
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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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• Genetic Architecture of 11 Major Psychiatric Disorders at Biobehavioral, Functional Genomic, and Molecular Genetic Levels of Analysis
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.22.20196089
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• Stratifying major depressive disorder by polygenic risk for schizophrenia in relation to structural brain measures
  Psychological Medicine 2020 DOI: 10.1017/S003329171900165X
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• Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.16.20133116
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• Genetic stratification of depression in UK Biobank
  Translational Psychiatry 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-0848-0
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