Bernie J Devlin, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Email devlinbj@upmc.edu
Education & Training
PhD
Pennsylvania State University Botany
Professional Affiliations
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member, American Society of Human Genetics
Member, Genetics Society of America
Member, International Society for Autism Research
Selected Honors & Awards
MERIT Award, National Institute of Mental Health
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Statistics, Section U
Research Interests
Genetic basis of disease and disorders; Statistical genetics; Genomics, transcriptomics & proteomics
Selected Research Publications & Products- Yurko R, GSell M, Roeder K, Devlin B. A selective inference approach for FDR control using multi-omics covariates yields insights into disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117:15028-15035, 2020. PMID: 32522875
- Breen MS, Dobbyn A, Li Q, Roussos P, Hoffman GE, Stahl E, Chess A, Sklar P, Li JB, Devlin B, Buxbaum JD; Common Mind Consortium. Global landscape and genetic regulation of RNA editing in cortical samples from individuals with schizophrenia. Nature Neuroscience 22:1402-1412, 2019. PMID: 31455887
- Gaugler T, Klei L, Sanders SJ, Bodea CA, Goldberg AP, Lee AB, Mahajan M, Manaa D, Pawitan Y, Reichert J, Ripke S, Sandin S, Sklar P, Svantesson O, Reichenberg A, Hultman CM, Devlin B, Roeder K, Buxbaum JD. Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation. Nature Genetics 46:881-885, 2014. PMID: 25038753
- Bodea CA, Neale BM, Ripke S; International IBD Genetics Consortium, Daly MJ, Devlin B, Roeder K. A Method to Exploit the Structure of Genetic Ancestry Space to Enhance Case-Control Studies. American Journal of Human Genetics, 98:857-868, 2016. PMID: 27087321
- Sanders SJ, Murtha MT, Gupta AR, Murdoch JD, Raubeson MJ, Willsey AJ, Ercan-Sencicek AG, DiLullo NM, Parikshak NN, Stein JL, Walker MF, Ober GT, Teran NA, Song Y, El-Fishawy P, Murtha R, Choi M, Overton JD, Bjornson RD, Carrierio NJ, Meyer KA, Bilguvar K, Mane SM, Sestan N, Lifton RP, Gnel M, Roeder K, Geschwind D, Devlin B, State MW. Disruptive de novo point mutations, revealed by whole-exome sequencing, are strongly associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Nature 485:237-241, 2012. PMID: 22495306