Evangelos Vassos

Summary

Affiliation: King's College London
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Penetrance for copy number variants associated with schizophrenia
    Evangelos Vassos
    Institute of Psychiatry, MRC SGDP Centre, King s College London, London, UK
    Hum Mol Genet 19:3477-81. 2010
  2. ncbi Effect of CAG repeat length on psychiatric disorders in Huntington's disease
    Evangelos Vassos
    Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens, 74 Vas Sofias Ave, Athens 11528, Greece
    J Psychiatr Res 42:544-9. 2008
  3. ncbi Replication study and meta-analysis in European samples supports association of the 3p21.1 locus with bipolar disorder
    Evangelos Vassos
    MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
    Biol Psychiatry 72:645-50. 2012
  4. ncbi Linear and non-linear associations of symptom dimensions and cognitive function in first-onset psychosis
    Eugenia Kravariti
    NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Schizophr Res 140:221-31. 2012
  5. ncbi Higher levels of extroverted hostility detected in gene carriers at risk for Huntington's disease
    Evangelos Vassos
    Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
    Biol Psychiatry 62:1347-52. 2007
  6. ncbi Meta-analysis of the association of urbanicity with schizophrenia
    Evangelos Vassos
    MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    Schizophr Bull 38:1118-23. 2012
  7. ncbi Association analysis of STX1A gene variants in common forms of migraine
    Maria Tropeano
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Cephalalgia 32:203-12. 2012
  8. ncbi Correlation and familial aggregation of dimensions of psychosis in affected sibling pairs from China
    Evangelos Vassos
    King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, London, UK
    Br J Psychiatry 193:305-10. 2008
  9. ncbi The cognitive impact of the ANK3 risk variant for bipolar disorder: initial evidence of selectivity to signal detection during sustained attention
    Gaia Ruberto
    Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 6:e16671. 2011
  10. ncbi Evidence of association of KIBRA genotype with episodic memory in families of psychotic patients and controls
    Evangelos Vassos
    King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
    J Psychiatr Res 44:795-8. 2010

Detail Information

Publications14

  1. ncbi Penetrance for copy number variants associated with schizophrenia
    Evangelos Vassos
    Institute of Psychiatry, MRC SGDP Centre, King s College London, London, UK
    Hum Mol Genet 19:3477-81. 2010
    ..Thus, although CNVs are still far from being clinically useful or relevant to genetic counselling for specific disorders, their detection may hold an important clinical value in predicting negative developmental outcomes...
  2. ncbi Effect of CAG repeat length on psychiatric disorders in Huntington's disease
    Evangelos Vassos
    Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens, 74 Vas Sofias Ave, Athens 11528, Greece
    J Psychiatr Res 42:544-9. 2008
    ..It is hypothesized that alternative genetic or environmental factors underlie the pathogenesis of the psychiatric phenotype...
  3. ncbi Replication study and meta-analysis in European samples supports association of the 3p21.1 locus with bipolar disorder
    Evangelos Vassos
    MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
    Biol Psychiatry 72:645-50. 2012
    ..Subsequent studies have suggested that this is also a risk locus for other psychiatric phenotypes, including major depression and schizophrenia...
  4. ncbi Linear and non-linear associations of symptom dimensions and cognitive function in first-onset psychosis
    Eugenia Kravariti
    NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Schizophr Res 140:221-31. 2012
    ..It also extended the research focus to mania, a less studied symptom dimension...
  5. ncbi Higher levels of extroverted hostility detected in gene carriers at risk for Huntington's disease
    Evangelos Vassos
    Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
    Biol Psychiatry 62:1347-52. 2007
    ..The objective of the present study was to detect behavioral and psychological features that differentiate gene carriers from non-carriers...
  6. ncbi Meta-analysis of the association of urbanicity with schizophrenia
    Evangelos Vassos
    MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    Schizophr Bull 38:1118-23. 2012
    ..The risk for schizophrenia at the most urban environment was estimated to be 2.37 times higher than in the most rural environment. The same effect was found when studies measuring the risk for nonaffective psychosis were included...
  7. ncbi Association analysis of STX1A gene variants in common forms of migraine
    Maria Tropeano
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Cephalalgia 32:203-12. 2012
    ..To examine the association of genetic variants in the syntaxin 1A gene (STX1A) with common forms of migraine, and perform a combined analysis of the data from the current study and previously published reports...
  8. ncbi Correlation and familial aggregation of dimensions of psychosis in affected sibling pairs from China
    Evangelos Vassos
    King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, London, UK
    Br J Psychiatry 193:305-10. 2008
    ..A number of studies with conflicting results have examined the familiality of schizophrenia syndromes in Western populations...
  9. ncbi The cognitive impact of the ANK3 risk variant for bipolar disorder: initial evidence of selectivity to signal detection during sustained attention
    Gaia Ruberto
    Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 6:e16671. 2011
    ..Preclinical data suggest that this may principally apply to sequential signal detection, a core process of sustained attention...
  10. ncbi Evidence of association of KIBRA genotype with episodic memory in families of psychotic patients and controls
    Evangelos Vassos
    King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
    J Psychiatr Res 44:795-8. 2010
    ..05). This study replicates the association between the KIBRA gene and episodic memory and suggests a possibly differential effect of the polymorphism in psychotic and non-psychotic individuals...
  11. ncbi No association between a common single nucleotide polymorphism, rs4141463, in the MACROD2 gene and autism spectrum disorder
    Sarah Curran
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 156:633-9. 2011
    ..944-1.133), with a P-value of 0.5 for ASD and OR of 0.99 (95% CI 0.88-1.11) with P-value = 0.85 for the Autism (A) sub-group. Therefore, this study does not provide support for the reported association between rs4141463 and autism...
  12. ncbi Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia
    Hreinn Stefansson
    CNS Division, deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, IS 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
    Nature 455:232-6. 2008
    ..CNV analysis may also point the way to the identification of additional and more prevalent risk variants in genes and pathways involved in schizophrenia...
  13. ncbi Association of genetically proven Huntington's disease and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a 72-year-old woman
    Sokratis G Papageorgiou
    J Neurol 253:1649-50. 2006
  14. ncbi Prevalence of epilepsy in prisoners: systematic review
    Seena Fazel
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
    BMJ 324:1495. 2002