2021

Neuron-specific chromosomal megadomain organization is adaptive to recent retrotransposon expansions.

Chandrasekaran S, Espeso-Gil S, Loh YE, Javidfar B, Kassim B, Zhu Y, Zhang Y, Dong Y, Bicks LK, Li H, Rajarajan P, Peter CJ, Sun D, Agullo-Pascual E, Iskhakova M, Estill M, Lesch BJ, Shen L, Jiang Y, Akbarian S. Nature Communications. 2021 Dec 13;12(1):7243. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26862-z.PMID: 34903713 

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2020

A chromosomal connectome for psychiatric and metabolic risk variants in adult dopaminergic neurons.

Espeso-Gil S, Halene T, Bendl J, Kassim B, Ben Hutta G, Iskhakova M, Shokrian N, Auluck P, Javidfar B, Rajarajan P, Chandrasekaran S, Peter CJ, Cote A, Birnbaum R, Liao W, Borrman T, Wiseman J, Bell A, Bannon MJ, Roussos P, Crary JF, Weng Z, Marenco S, Lipska B, Tsankova NM, Huckins L, Jiang Y, Akbarian S.Genome Medicine. 2020 Feb 19;12(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s13073-020-0715-x.PMID: 32075678 

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2019

In vivo epigenetic editing of Sema6a promoter reverses transcallosal dysconnectivity caused by C11orf46/Arl14ep risk gene.

Peter CJ*, Saito A*, Hasegawa Y, Tanaka Y, Nagpal M, Perez G, Alway E, Espeso-Gil S, Fayyad T, Ratner C, Dincer A, Gupta A, Devi L, Pappas JG, Lalonde FM, Butman JA, Han JC, Akbarian S, Kamiya A.Nature Communications. 2019 Sep 11;10(1):4112. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12013-y.PMID: 31511512 Free PMC article.

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2017

Jiang Y, Loh YE, Rajarajan P, Hirayama T, Liao W, Kassim BS, Javidfar B, Hartley BJ, Kleofas L, Park RB, Labonte B, Ho SM, Chandrasekaran S, Do C, Ramirez BR, Peter CJ@, C W JT, Safaie BM, Morishita H, Roussos P, Nestler EJ, Schaefer A, Tycko B, Brennand KJ, Yagi T, Shen L, Akbarian S. The methyltransferase SETDB1 regulates a large neuron-specific topological chromatin domain.

Nature Genetics. 2017 Jul 3. Impact factor 27.959.

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Mitchell AC, Javidfar B, Pothula V, Ibi D, Shen EY, Peter CJ@, Bicks LK, Fehr T, Jiang Y, Brennand KJ, Neve RL, Gonzalez-Maeso J, Akbarian S.

MEF2C transcription factor is associated with the genetic and epigenetic risk architecture of schizophrenia and improves cognition in mice.

Molecular Psychiatry. 2017 Jan 24.

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2016

Peter CJ*@, Fischer LK*, Kundakovic M*, Garg P*, Jakovcevski M, Dincer A, Amaral AC, Ginns EI, Galdzicka M, Bryce CP, Ratner C, Waber DP, Mokler D, Medford G, Champagne FA, Rosene DL, McGaughy JA, Sharp AJ, Galler JR, Akbarian S.

DNA Methylation Signatures of Early Childhood Malnutrition Associated With Impairments in Attention and Cognition.

Biological Psychiatry. 2016 Nov 15;80(10):765-774. *First-co-author Impact factor 11.212

 

Egervari G, Jutras-Aswad D, Landry J, Miller ML, Anderson SA, Michaelides M, Jacobs MM, Peter CJ@, Yiannoulos G, Liu X, Hurd YL.

A Functional 3'UTR Polymorphism (rs2235749) of Prodynorphin Alters microRNA-365 Binding in Ventral Striatonigral Neurons to Influence Novelty Seeking and Positive Reward Traits.

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Sep;41(10):2512-20. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.53. Impact factor 4.709 

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2015

Jakovcevski M, Ruan H, Shen EY, Dincer A, Javidfar B, Ma Q, Peter CJ@, Cheung I, Mitchell AC, Jiang Y, Lin CL, Pothula V, Stewart AF, Ernst P, Yao WD, Akbarian S.

Neuronal Kmt2a/Mll1 histone methyltransferase is essential for prefrontal synaptic plasticity and working memory.

Journal of Neuroscience. 2015 Apr 1;35(13):5097-108. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3004-14.2015  Impact factor 6.92

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2014

Bharadwaj R*, Peter CJ*@, Jiang Y*, Roussos P, Vogel-Ciernia A, Shen EY, Mitchell AC, Mao W, Whittle C, Dincer A, Jakovcevski M, Pothula V, Rasmussen TP, Giakoumaki SG, Bitsios P, Sherif A, Gardner PD, Ernst P, Ghose S, Sklar P, Haroutunian V, Tamminga C, Myers RH, Futai K, Wood MA, Akbarian S. 
Conserved higher-order chromatin regulates NMDA receptor gene expression and cognition. 
Neuron. 84(5): 997-1008. PMID: 25467983; 2014. *First-co-author Impact factor 16.092

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Mitchell A, Roussos P, Peter CJ@, Tsankova N, Akbarian S. 
The future of neuroepigenetics in the human brain.
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science. 128:199-228. PMID: 25410546; 2014. Impact factor 3.488

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Mitchell AC, Jiang Y, Peter CJ@, Akbarian S.
Transcriptional regulation of GAD1 GABA synthesis gene in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia Research. pii: S0920-9964 (14) 00589-1. PMID: 25458568; 2014. Impact factor 4.882

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Halene TB, Peter CJ@, Akbarian S.
Epigenetic Dysregulation in the Schizophrenic Brain.
Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 1(2): 86-93; 2014.

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2013

Houston I, Peter CJ@, Mitchell A, Straubhaar J, Rogaev E, Akbarian S.

Epigenetics in the human brain.

Neuropsychopharmacology. 38(1): 183-97. PMID: 22643929; 2013. Impact factor 4.709

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2012

Shulha HP, Crisci JL, Reshetov D, Tushir JS, Cheung I, Bharadwaj R, Chou HJ, Houston IB, Peter CJ@, Mitchell AC, Yao WD, Myers RH, Chen JF, Preuss TM, Rogaev EI, Jensen JD, Weng Z, Akbarian S.

Human-specific histone methylation signatures at transcription start sites in prefrontal neurons.
PLoS Biology. 10(11): e1001427. PMID: 23185133; 2012. Impact factor 8.668

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2011

Peter CJ#, Evans M, Thayanithy V, Taniguchi-Ishigaki N, Bach I, Kolpak A, Bassell GJ, Rossoll W, Lorson CL, Bao ZZ, Androphy EJ.
The COPI vesicle complex binds and moves with survival motor neuron within axons.
Human Molecular Genetics. 20(9): 1701-11. PMID: 21300694; 2011. Impact factor 5.985

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Peter CJ@, Akbarian S.

Balancing histone methylation activities in psychiatric disorders.

Trends in Molecular Medicine. 17(7): 372-9. PMID: 21429800; 2011. Impact factor 10.114

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2007

Jayakumar PC$, Shouche YS, Patole MS.

Functional analysis of Drosophila melanogaster hexokinase Hex-A locus: multiple Initiator-like elements enhance DPE containing promoter activity.

Insect Molecular Biology. 2007 Feb;16(1):3-13.

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@ Publications obtained during post-doc, Instructor and research assistant professor period

 #  Publication obtained during first post-doc

 $  Publication obtained during graduate study (Ph.D thesis work)