O Mors

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Affiliation: Aarhus University Hospital
Country: Denmark

Publications

  1. ncbi Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophrenia
    P B Mortensen
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    N Engl J Med 340:603-8. 1999
  2. ncbi A genome-wide search for risk genes using homozygosity mapping and microarrays with 1,494 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 22 eastern Cuban families with bipolar disorder
    H Ewald
    Centre for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 133:25-30. 2005
  3. ncbi A genome-wide search for alleles and haplotypes associated with autism and related pervasive developmental disorders on the Faroe Islands
    M B Lauritsen
    Centre for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Shovagervej 2, DK 8240 Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 11:37-46. 2006
  4. ncbi Further evidence for a bipolar risk gene on chromosome 12q24 suggested by investigation of haplotype sharing and allelic association in patients from the Faroe Islands
    B Degn
    Department of Biological Psychiatry, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, DK-8240 Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 6:450-5. 2001
  5. ncbi A functional variant of the serotonin transporter gene in families with bipolar affective disorder
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Risskov, Denmark
    J Affect Disord 48:135-44. 1998
  6. ncbi Possible evidence for a common risk locus for bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia on chromosome 4p16 in patients from the Faroe Islands
    T D Als
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 9:93-8. 2004
  7. ncbi Mutational screening and association study of glutamate decarboxylase 1 as a candidate susceptibility gene for bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia
    M D Lundorf
    Centre for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric University Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 135:94-101. 2005
  8. ncbi Support for the possible locus on chromosome 4p16 for bipolar affective disorder
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 3:442-8. 1998
  9. ncbi Decreased risk of acute appendicitis in patients with schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital, Skovagervej 2, DK 8240, Risskov, Denmark
    Schizophr Res 49:287-93. 2001
  10. ncbi A haplotype-based study of lithium responding patients with bipolar affective disorder on the Faroe Islands
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
    Psychiatr Genet 9:23-34. 1999

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  1. ncbi Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophrenia
    P B Mortensen
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    N Engl J Med 340:603-8. 1999
    ..Although a family history of schizophrenia is the best-established risk factor for schizophrenia, environmental factors such as the place and season of birth may also be important...
  2. ncbi A genome-wide search for risk genes using homozygosity mapping and microarrays with 1,494 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 22 eastern Cuban families with bipolar disorder
    H Ewald
    Centre for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 133:25-30. 2005
    ..When analyzing 19 additional microsatellite markers on chromosome 17q the maximum parametric multipoint LOD score was 2.08, 1.5 cM proximal to D17S668. The present study replicates a recent significant linkage finding...
  3. ncbi A genome-wide search for alleles and haplotypes associated with autism and related pervasive developmental disorders on the Faroe Islands
    M B Lauritsen
    Centre for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Shovagervej 2, DK 8240 Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 11:37-46. 2006
    ..Our data suggest that markers in these regions are in linkage disequilibrium with genes involved in the etiology of autism, and we hypothesize susceptibility genes for autism and related PDDs to be localized within these regions...
  4. ncbi Further evidence for a bipolar risk gene on chromosome 12q24 suggested by investigation of haplotype sharing and allelic association in patients from the Faroe Islands
    B Degn
    Department of Biological Psychiatry, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, DK-8240 Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 6:450-5. 2001
    ..This area contains the minimum interesting region between D12S342 and D12S1658 suggested by the previously reported haplotypes in the two Danish families with bipolar affective disorder...
  5. ncbi A functional variant of the serotonin transporter gene in families with bipolar affective disorder
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Risskov, Denmark
    J Affect Disord 48:135-44. 1998
    ..Recently a functionally important 44 basepair deletion in the regulatory region of the SERT gene was described. Association between this variant and affective disorder has been suggested...
  6. ncbi Possible evidence for a common risk locus for bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia on chromosome 4p16 in patients from the Faroe Islands
    T D Als
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 9:93-8. 2004
    ..Our study yields support for a common risk gene for schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder on the short arm of chromosome 4, as suggested by previous findings in the neighbouring Scottish population...
  7. ncbi Mutational screening and association study of glutamate decarboxylase 1 as a candidate susceptibility gene for bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia
    M D Lundorf
    Centre for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric University Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 135:94-101. 2005
    ..Thus the results obtained from the Scottish sample suggest that the GAD1 gene variants do not play a major role in the predisposition to schizophrenia...
  8. ncbi Support for the possible locus on chromosome 4p16 for bipolar affective disorder
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 3:442-8. 1998
    ..Final proof of a disease locus in the Scottish and our study has to await the identification of a DNA sequence of functional significance for bipolar disorder...
  9. ncbi Decreased risk of acute appendicitis in patients with schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital, Skovagervej 2, DK 8240, Risskov, Denmark
    Schizophr Res 49:287-93. 2001
    ..Further studies of this relationship may help to clarify etiological or pathophysiological aspects of schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis...
  10. ncbi A haplotype-based study of lithium responding patients with bipolar affective disorder on the Faroe Islands
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
    Psychiatr Genet 9:23-34. 1999
    ..However, methods of genetic analysis which might provide a conclusive result are not yet available...
  11. ncbi Empirical support for a reclassification of eating disorders NOS
    J L Helverskov
    Eating Disorder Centre, Regional Centre of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    Eur Eat Disord Rev 19:303-15. 2011
    ..To explore the empirical support for a reclassification of the eating disorders NOS (EDNOS) category...
  12. ncbi A population-based register study of the association between schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis
    O Mors
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
    Schizophr Res 40:67-74. 1999
    ..Clinicians are reminded of the difficulties in detecting medical illness among individuals with schizophrenia...
  13. ncbi Susceptibility loci for bipolar affective disorder on chromosome 18? A review and a study of Danish families
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
    Psychiatr Genet 7:1-12. 1997
    ..The highest lod score found was for marker D18S67, 1.83 at 0.05 recombination fraction...
  14. ncbi A genome-wide scan shows significant linkage between bipolar disorder and chromosome 12q24.3 and suggestive linkage to chromosomes 1p22-21, 4p16, 6q14-22, 10q26 and 16p13.3
    H Ewald
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Skovagervej, Risskov, Denmark
    Mol Psychiatry 7:734-44. 2002
    ..60 (P-value 0.00079) at D1S216 further supported this finding. A number of additional loci on chromosomes 4p16, 6q14-q22, 10q26 and 16p13.3 yielded parametric lod scores around or above 2...
  15. ncbi Is head injury a risk factor for schizophrenia?
    A S Nielsen
    Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, 8240 Risskov, Denmark
    Schizophr Res 55:93-8. 2002
    ..The few studies that have examined whether head injury is a risk factor for later schizophrenia have had important methodological problems...
  16. ncbi No evidence of increased risk for schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder in persons with aneuploidies of the sex chromosomes
    O Mors
    Department of Pschiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
    Psychol Med 31:425-30. 2001
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  17. ncbi Search for common haplotypes on chromosome 22q in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder from the Faroe Islands
    T H Jorgensen
    Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
    Am J Med Genet 114:245-52. 2002
    ..We did not find this mutation in schizophrenic or bipolar patients or the controls from the Faroe Islands...
  18. ncbi The perceived and predicted implications of psychiatric genetic knowledge among persons with multiple cases of depression in the family
    M M Laegsgaard
    Centre for Psychiatric Research, Aarhus Psychiatric University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 122:470-80. 2010
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  19. ncbi The norepinephrine transporter gene is a candidate gene for panic disorder
    H N Buttenschøn
    Centre for Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Skovagervej 2, 8240 Risskov, Denmark
    J Neural Transm 118:969-76. 2011
    ..Furthermore, the NET gene showed overall evidence for association with the disease (P = 0.000035). In conclusion, the present study indicates that NET could be a susceptibility gene for PD...
  20. ncbi Trans-diagnostic outcome of eating disorders: A 30-month follow-up study of 629 patients
    J L Helverskov
    Eating Disorder Centre, Regional Centre of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
    Eur Eat Disord Rev 18:453-63. 2010
    ..To assess the 30-month outcome and predictors of outcome in a cohort of patients with any eating disorder (ED)...