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BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW (PREPRINT AVAILABLE)
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- Wendt FR, Warrier V, Pathak GA, Koenen KC, Stein MB, Krystal JH, Pietrzak R, Gelernter R, Goldfarb EV, Baron-Cohen S, Polimanti R. Higher polygenic scores for empathy increase posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events. medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.26.21261139. In press Neurobiology of Stress.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Deak JD, De Angelis F, Koller D, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Lebovitch DS, Levey DF, Stein MB, Kranzler HR, Koenen KC, Gelernter J, Huckins LM, Polimanti R. Using phenotype risk scores to enhance gene discovery for generalized anxiety disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Feb 18. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01469-y. Online ahead of print.PMID: 35181757.
- Pathak GA, Singh K, Wendt FR, Flemming TW, Overstreet C, Koller D, De Angelis F, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Levey DF, Koenen K, Krystal JH, Pietrzak R, O’Donnell C, Gaziano JM, Falcone G, Stein MB, Gelernter J, Pasaniuc B, Mancuso N, Davis LK, Polimanti R. Genetically regulated multi-omics investigation of prefrontal cortex for symptom clusters of posttraumatic stress disorder highlights pleiotropy with blood and cardio-metabolic traits. In press Molecular Psychiatry.
- Peloso GM, Tcheandjieu C, Wu, WC, Posner DC, Zhou JJ, MVP COVID-19 GWAS Working Group, Joseph J, Efird JT, Crawford D, Sun YV, McGeary JE, Arjomandi M, Assimes TL, Huffman JE, VA Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative. Genetic Loci Associated With COVID-19 Positivity and Hospitalization in White, Black, and Hispanic Veterans of the VA Million Veteran Program. Front. Genet., 03 February 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.777076.
- Wendt FR is an analyst in the MVP COVID-19 GWAS Working Group
- Hung AM, Shah SC, Bick AG, Yu Z, Chen HC, Hunt CM, Wendt FR, Wilson O, Greevy RA, Chung CP, Suzuki A, Ho YL, Akwo E, Polimanti R, Zhou J, Reaven P, Tsao PS, Gaziano JM, Huffman JE, Joseph J, Luoh SW, Iyengar S, Chang KM, Casas JP, Matheny ME, O'Donnell CJ, Cho K, Tao R, Susztak K, Robinson-Cohen C, Tuteja S, Siew ED; VA Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative. APOL1 Risk Variants, Acute Kidney Injury, and Death in Participants With African Ancestry Hospitalized With COVID-19 From the Million Veteran Program. JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jan 28. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.8538. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35089317.
- Pathak GA, De Lillo A, Wendt FR, De Angelis F, Koller D, Cabrera Mendoza B, Jacoby D, Miller EJ, Buxbaum JN, Polimanti R. The integration of genetically-regulated transcriptomics and electronic health records highlights a pattern of medical outcomes related to increased hepatic transthyretin expression. Amyloid. 2021 Dec 22:1-10. doi: 10.1080/13506129.2021.2018678. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34935565.
- Wendt FR, De Lillo A, Pathak GA, De Angelis F, COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, Polimanti R. Host Genetic Liability for Severe COVID-19 Associates with Alcohol Drinking Behavior and Diabetic Outcomes in Participants of European Descent. Frontiers in Genetics. 2021;12.
- Hatoum AS, Wendt FR, Galimberti M, Polimanti R, Neale B, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J, Edenberg HJ, Agrawal A. Ancestry may confound genetic machine learning: Candidate-gene prediction of opioid use disorder as an example. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Oct 9;229(Pt B):109115. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109115. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34710714.
- De Angelis F, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, Goswami A, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Drinking and smoking polygenic risk is associated with childhood and early-adulthood psychiatric and behavioral traits independently of substance use and psychiatric genetic risk. Transl Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 13;11(1):586. doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01713-z. PMID: 34775470.
- Tamman AJF, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Krystal JH, Montalvo-Ortiz JL, Southwick SM, Sippel LM, Gelernter J, Polimanti R, Pietrzak RH. Attachment style moderates polygenic risk for incident posttraumatic stress in U.S. military veterans: a 7-year, nationally representative prospective cohort study. Biological Psychiatry, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.09.025.
- Na PJ, De Angelis F, Nichter B, Wendt FR, Krystal JH, Southwick SM, Levey DF, Gelernter J, Polimanti R, Pietrzak RH. Psychosocial moderators of polygenic risk for suicidal ideation: Results from a 7-year population-based, prospective cohort study of U.S. veterans. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 2. doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01352-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34725455.
- Carvalho CM, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Maihofer AX, Stein DJ, Sumner JA, Hemmings SMJ, Nievergelt CM, Koenen Muniz Carvalho C, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Maihofer AX, Stein DJ, Sumner JA, Hemmings SMJ, Nievergelt CM, Koenen KC, Gelernter J, Belangero SI, Polimanti R. Disentangling sex differences in the shared genetic architecture of posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic experiences, and social support with body size and composition. Neurobiol Stress. 2021 Sep 17;15:100400. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100400. PMID: 34611531; PMCID: PMC8477211.
- Patterson C, Gray S, Wendt FR, Roy R. Characterizing DNA metal inhibition of human blood samples. In press at Forensic Science International: Genetics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102598.
- Pathak GA, Wendt FR, Goswami A, De Angelis F, COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, Polimanti R. ACE2 Netlas: In-silico functional characterization and drug-gene interactions of ACE2 gene network to understand its potential involvement in COVID-19 susceptibility. Front. Genetics. 2021. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.698033.
- Pathak GA, Singh K, Miller-Fleming TW, Wendt FR, Ehsan N, Hou K, Johnson R, Lu Z, Gopalan S, Yengo L, Mohammadi P, Pasaniuc B, Polimanti R, Davis LK, Mancuso N. Integrative genomic analyses identify susceptibility genes underlying COVID-19 hospitalization. Nat Comm. 2021 Jul 27;12(1):4569. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24824-z. PMID: 34315903.
- Johnson EC, Kapoor M, Hatoum AS, Zhou H, Polimanti R, Wendt FR, Walters RK, Lai D, Kember RL, Hartz S, Meyers JL, Peterson RE, Ripke S, Bigdeli TB, Fanous AH, Pato CN, Pato MT, Goate AM, Kranzler HR, O'Donovan MC, Walters JTR, Gelernter J, Edenberg HJ, Agrawal A. Investigation of convergent and divergent genetic influences underlying schizophrenia and alcohol use disorder. Psychol Med. 2021 Jul 7:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S003329172100266X. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34231451.
- COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature. 2021 Jul 8. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03767-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34237774.
- Wendt FR contributed to Writing and Analysis section teams (Phenome-wide association study)
- Bountress KE*, Wendt FR*, Bustamante D, Agrawal A, Webb B, Gillespie N, Edenberg H, Sheerin C, Johnson E; Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Working Group, Polimanti R#, Amstadter A#. Potential causal effect of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on alcohol use disorder and alcohol consumption in individuals of European descent: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 Jun 12. doi: 10.1111/acer.14649. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34120358. * = equal contribution; # = equal contribution.
- Tiedge TM, Nagachar N, Wendt FR, Lakhtakia A, Roy R. High-throughput DNA Sequencing of Environmentally Insulted Latent Fingerprints after Visualization with Nanoscale Columnar-Thin-Film Technique, Science & Justice, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.06.002.
- Levey DF, Stein MB, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Zhou H, Aslan M, Quaden R, Harrington KM, Nuñez YZ, Overstreet C, Radhakrishnan K, Sanacora G, McIntosh AM, Shi J, Shringarpure SS; 23andMe Research Team; Million Veteran Program, Concato J, Polimanti R, Gelernter J. Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions. Nat Neurosci. 2021 May 27. doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00860-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34045744.
- De Lillo A, D'Antona S, Pathak GA, Wendt FR, De Angelis F, Fuciarelli M, Polimanti R. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies identified heterogeneous loci associated with differences of allele frequency and regulome tagging between participants of European descent and other ancestry groups from the UK Biobank. Hum Mol Genet. 2021 Apr 22:ddab114. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab114. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33890984.
- Wendt FR, Koller D, Pathak GA, Jacoby D, Miller EJ, Polimanti R. Biobank scale pharmacogenomics informs the genetic underpinnings of simvastatin use. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Apr 10. doi: 10.1002/cpt.2260. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33837531.
- Pathak GA, Wendt FR, Levey DF, Mecca AP, van Dyck CH, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Pleiotropic effects of telomere length loci with brain morphology, and brain tissue expression. Hum Mol Genet. 2021 Apr 7:ddab102. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab102. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33831179.
- Asch RH, Esterlis I, Wendt FR, Kachadourian L, Southwick SM, Gelernter J, Polimanti R, Pietrzak RH. Polygenic Risk for Traumatic Loss-related PTSD in U.S. Military Veterans: Protective Effect of Secure Attachment Style. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 6:1-24. doi: 10.1080/15622975.2021.1907721. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33821766.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Levey DF, Nuñez YZ, Overstreet C, Tyrrell C, Adhikari K, De Angelis F, Tylee DS, Goswami A, Krystal JH, Abdallah CG, Stein MB, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality. Neurobiol Stress. 2021 Feb 18;14:100309. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100309. PMID: 33665242; PMCID: PMC7905234.
- Polimanti R, Levey DF, Pathak GA, Wendt FR, Nunez YZ, Ursano RJ, Kessler RC, Kranzler HR, Stein MB, Gelernter J. Multi-environment gene interactions linked to the interplay between polysubstance dependence and suicidality. Transl Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 11;11(1):34. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-01153-1. PMID: 33431810.
- Stein MB, Levey DF, Cheng Z, Wendt FR, Harrington K, Pathak GA, Cho K, Quaden R, Radhakrishnan K, Girgenti MJ, Ho YA, Posner D, Aslan M, Duman RS, Zhao H; Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (no. 575B); VA Million Veteran Program, Polimanti R, Concato J, Gelernter J. Genome-wide association analyses of post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptom subdomains in the Million Veteran Program. Nat Genet. 2021 Jan 28. doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-00767-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33510476.
- Pathak GA, Wendt FR, De Lillo A, Nunez YZ, Goswami A, De Angelis F, Fuciarelli M, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Epigenomic Profiles of African American Transthyretin Val122Ile Carriers Reveals Putatively Dysregulated Amyloid Mechanisms. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2021 Jan 11. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.120.003011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33428857.
- Guevara EK, Palo JU, Översti S, King JL, Seidel M, Stoljarova M, Wendt FR, Bus MM, Guengerich A, Church WB, Guillén S, Roewer L, Budowle B, Sajantila A. Genetic assessment reveals no population substructure and divergent regional and sex-specific histories in the Chachapoyas from northeast Peru. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 31;15(12):e0244497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244497. PMID: 33382772.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Overstreet C, Tylee DS, Gelernter J, Atkinson EG, Polimanti R. Characterizing the effect of background selection on the polygenicity of brain-related traits. Genomics. 2020 Dec 2;113(1 Pt 1):111-119. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.032. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33278486.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Lencz T, Krystal JH, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Multivariate genome-wide analysis of education, socioeconomic status and brain phenome. Nat Hum Behav. 2020 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-00980-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33349686.
- Tamman AJF, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Krystal JH, Montalvo-Ortiz JL, Southwick SM, Sippel LM, Gelernter J, Polimanti R, Pietrzak RH. Attachment Style Moderates Polygenic Risk for Posttraumatic Stress in United States Military Veterans: Results From the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 Sep 30:S0006-3223(20)31947-8. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.09.018. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33276944.
- Johnson EC, Demontis D, Thorgeirsson TE, Walters RK, Polimanti R, Hatoum AS, Sanchez-Roige S, Paul SE, Wendt FR, Clarke TK, Lai D, Reginsson GW, Zhou H, He J, Baranger DAA, Gudbjartsson DF, Wedow R, Adkins DE, Adkins AE, Alexander J, Bacanu SA, Bigdeli TB, Boden J, Brown SA, Bucholz KK, Bybjerg-Grauholm J, Corley RP, Degenhardt L, Dick DM, Domingue BW, Fox L, Goate AM, Gordon SD, Hack LM, Hancock DB, Hartz SM, Hickie IB, Hougaard DM, Krauter K, Lind PA, McClintick JN, McQueen MB, Meyers JL, Montgomery GW, Mors O, Mortensen PB, Nordentoft M, Pearson JF, Peterson RE, Reynolds MD, Rice JP, Runarsdottir V, Saccone NL, Sherva R, Silberg JL, Tarter RE, Tyrfingsson T, Wall TL, Webb BT, Werge T, Wetherill L, Wright MJ, Zellers S, Adams MJ, Bierut LJ, Boardman JD, Copeland WE, Farrer LA, Foroud TM, Gillespie NA, Grucza RA, Harris KM, Heath AC, Hesselbrock V, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, Horwood J, Iacono WG, Johnson EO, Kendler KS, Kennedy MA, Kranzler HR, Madden PAF, Maes HH, Maher BS, Martin NG, McGue M, McIntosh AM, Medland SE, Nelson EC, Porjesz B, Riley BP, Stallings MC, Vanyukov MM, Vrieze S; Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Substance Use Disorders Workgroup, Davis LK, Bogdan R, Gelernter J, Edenberg HJ, Stefansson K, Børglum AD, Agrawal A. A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020 Dec;7(12):1032-1045. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30339-4. Epub 2020 Oct 20. PMID: 33096046; PMCID: PMC7674631.
- Pathak GA, Polimanti R, Silzer TK, Wendt FR, Chakraborty R, Phillips NR. Genetically-regulated transcriptomics & copy number variation of proctitis points to altered mitochondrial and DNA repair mechanisms in individuals of European ancestry. BMC Cancer. 2020 Oct 2;20(1):954. doi: 10.1186/s12885-020-07457-1. PMID: 33008348; PMCID: PMC7530964.
- Wendt FR, Carvalho CM, Pathak GA, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder associates with anger recognition in a neurodevelopment-focused phenome-wide scan of unaffected youths from a population-based cohort. PLoS Genet. 2020 Sep 17;16(9):e1009036. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009036. PMID: 32941431; PMCID: PMC7523983.
- Carvalho CM, Wendt FR, Maihofer AX, Stein DJ, Stein MB, Sumner JA, Hemmings SMJ, Nievergelt CM, Koenen KC, Gelernter J, Belangero SI, Polimanti R. Dissecting the genetic association of C-reactive protein with PTSD, traumatic events, and social support. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 Mar 16; doi: 10.1038/s41386-020-0655-6. PubMed PMID: 32179874.
- Carvalho CM, Wendt FR, Stein DJ, Stein MB, Gelernter J, Belangero SI, Polimanti R. Investigating Causality Between Blood Metabolites and Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Traumatic Stress: a Mendelian Randomization Study. Mol Neurobiol. 2019 Nov 30;. doi: 10.1007/s12035-019-01823-2. PubMed PMID: 31786776.
- Wendt FR, Carvalho CM, Pathak GA, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Deciphering the Biological Mechanisms Underlying the Genome-Wide Associations between Computerized Device Use and Psychiatric Disorders. J Clin Med. 2019 Nov 21;8(12). doi: 10.3390/jcm8122040. PubMed PMID: 31766499.
- Wendt FR, Novroski NM. Identity informative SNP associations in the UK Biobank. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2019 Sep;42:45-48. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.06.007. Epub 2019 Jun 14. PubMed PMID: 31226582.
- Sherier AJ, Kieser RE, Novroski NMM, Wendt FR, King JL, Woerner AE, Ambers A, Garofano P, Budowle B. Copan microFLOQ® Direct Swab collection of bloodstains, saliva, and semen on cotton cloth. Int J Legal Med. 2019 Jun 4;. doi: 10.1007/s00414-019-02081-6. PubMed PMID: 31165261.
- Wendt FR, Rahikainen AL, King JL, Sajantila A, Budowle B. A genome-wide association study of tramadol metabolism from post-mortem samples. Pharmacogenomics J. 2019 Apr 11. doi: 10.1038/s41397-019-0088-y. PubMed PMID: 30971809.
- Wendt FR, Novroski NMM, Rahikainen AL, Sajantila A, Budowle B. A pathway-driven predictive model of tramadol pharmacogenetics. Eur J Hum Genet. 2019 Mar 1. doi: 10.1038/s41431-019-0369-6. PubMed PMID: 30824817.
- Woerner AE, Novroski NMM, Wendt FR, Ambers A, Wiley R, Schmedes SE, Budowle B. Forensic human identification with targeted microbiome markers using nearest neighbor classification. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2019 Jan;38:130-139. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.10.003. Epub 2018 Oct 5. PubMed PMID: 30396009.
- Wendt FR, Woerner AE, Sajantila A, Moura-Neto RS, Budowle B. Exploring the 1000 Genomes Project haplotype reporting for the CYP2D6 pharmacogene. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 2018 Jun 2. doi: 10.1007/s00414-018-1874-9. PubMed PMID: 29860596.
- Novroski NMM, Wendt FR, Woerner AE, Bus MM, Coble M, Budowle B. Expanding beyond the current core STR loci: An exploration of 73 STR markers with increased diversity for enhanced DNA mixture deconvolution. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2019 Jan;38:121-129. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.10.013. Epub 2018 Oct 29. PubMed PMID: 30396008.
- Wendt FR, Novroski NMM, Rahikainen AL, Sajantila A, Budowle B. Supervised Classification of CYP2D6 Genotype and Metabolizer Phenotype With Postmortem Tramadol-Exposed Finns. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2018 Nov 29. doi: 10.1097/PAF.0000000000000447. PubMed PMID: 30507617.
- Woerner AE, Ambers A, Wendt FR, King JL, Moura-Neto RS, Silva R, Budowle B. Evaluation of the precision ID mtDNA whole genome panel on two massively parallel sequencing systems. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Sep;36:213-224. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.07.015. Epub 2018 Jul 18. PMID: 30059903.
- Wendt FR, Sajantila A, Budowle B. Predicted activity of UGT2B7, ABCB1, OPRM1, and COMT using full-gene haplotypes and their association with the CYP2D6-inferred metabolizer phenotype. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Mar;33:48-58. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.11.012. Epub 2017 Nov 26. PubMed PMID: 29190510.
- Wendt FR, King JL, Novroski NM, Churchill JD, Ng J, Oldt RF, McCulloh KL, Weise JA, Smith DG, Kanthaswamy S, Budowle B. Flanking region variation of ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep Kit STR and SNP loci in Yavapai Native Americans. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2017 May;28:146-154. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.02.014. Epub 2017 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 28273507.
- Schmedes SE, Woerner AE, Novroski NMM, Wendt FR, King JL, Stephens KM, Budowle B. Targeted sequencing of clade-specific markers from skin microbiomes for forensic human identification. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Jan;32:50-61. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.10.004. Epub 2017 Oct 18. PMID: 29065388.
- Wendt FR, Sajantila A, Moura-Neto RS, Woerner AE, Budowle B. Full-gene haplotypes refine CYP2D6 metabolizer phenotype inferences. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 2017 Oct 26. doi: 10.1007/s00414-017-1709-0. PubMed PMID: 29075918.
- Moura-Neto RS, Mello ICT, Silva R, Maette APC, Bottino CG, Woerner A, King J, Wendt FR, Budowle B. Evaluation of InnoTyper® 21 in a sample of Rio de Janeiro population as an alternative forensic panel. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 2017 Jul 26. doi: 10.1007/s00414-017-1642-2. PubMed PMID: 28748403.
- Brown H, Thompson R, Murphy G, Peters D, LaRue B, King J, Montgomery AH, Carroll M, Baus J, Sinha S, Wendt FR, Song B, Chakraborty R, Budowle B, Sinha SK. Development and validation of a novel multiplexed DNA analysis system, InnoTyper® 21. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2017 Mar 18;29:80-99. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.03.017. PubMed PMID: 28391141.
- Wendt FR, Pathak G, Sajantila A, Chakraborty R, Budowle B. Global genetic variation of select opiate metabolism genes in self-reported healthy individuals. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 2017 Apr 11. doi: 10.1038/tpj.2017.13. PubMed PMID: 28398354.
- King JL, Wendt FR, Sun J, Budowle B. STRait Razor v2s: Advancing sequence-based STR allele reporting and beyond to other marker systems. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2017 Mar 12;29:21-28. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.03.013. PubMed PMID: 28343097.
- Pakstis AJ, Kang L, Liu L, Zhang Z, Jin T, Grigorenko EL, Wendt FR, Budowle B, Hadi S, Al Qahtani MS, Morling N, Mogensen HS, Themudo GE, Soundararajan U, Rajeevan H, Kidd JR, Kidd KK. Increasing the reference populations for the 55 AISNP panel: the need and benefits. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 2017 Jul;131(4):913-917. doi: 10.1007/s00414-016-1524-z. Epub 2017 Jan 9. PubMed PMID: 28070634; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5491587.
- Wendt FR, Warshauer DH, Zeng X, Churchill JD, Novroski NM, Song B, King JL, LaRue BL, Budowle B. Massively parallel sequencing of 68 insertion/deletion markers identifies novel microhaplotypes for utility in human identity testing. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2016 Nov;25:198-209. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.09.005. PubMed PMID: 27685342.
- Wendt FR, Churchill JD, Novroski NMM, King JL, Ng J, Oldt RF, McCulloh KL, Weise JA, Smith DG, Kanthaswamy S, Budowle B. Genetic analysis of the Yavapai Native Americans from West-Central Arizona using the Illumina MiSeq FGx™ Forensic Genomics System. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2016 Sep;24:18-23. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.05.008. Epub 2016 May 17. PubMed PMID: 27243782.
- Wendt FR, Zeng X, Churchill JD, King JL, Budowle B. Analysis of short tandem repeat and single nucleotide polymorphism loci from single-source samples using a custom HaloPlex Target Enrichment System panel. American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 2016 Jun;37(2):99-107. doi: 10.1097/PAF.0000000000000228. PubMed PMID: 27075592.
- Holland M, Wendt FR. Evaluation of the RapidHIT™ 200, an automated human identification system for STR analysis of single source samples. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 2015 Jan;14:76-85. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.08.010. Epub 2014 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 25286443.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS
- Polimanti R, Wendt FR. Posttraumatic stress disorder: from gene discovery to disease biology. Psychol Med. 2021 Feb 15:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0033291721000210. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33583458.
- Goswami A, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, De Angelis F, De Lillo A, Polimanti R. Role of microbes in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders. Front Neuroendocrinol. 2021 May 4;62:100917. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2021.100917. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33957173.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, Goswami A, Polimanti R. Heterogeneity and Polygenicity in Psychiatric Disorders: A Genome-Wide Perspective. Chronic Stress (Thousand Oaks). 2020 May 18;4:2470547020924844. doi: 10.1177/2470547020924844. PMID: 32518889; PMCID: PMC7254587.
- Wendt FR, Budowle B. Pharmacogenetics and the postmortem molecular autopsy. WIREs Forensic Sci. 2019;e1361. https://doi.org/10.1002/wfs2.1361.
- Budowle B, Schmedes SE, Wendt FR. Increasing the reach of forensic genetics with massively parallel sequencing. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2017 Sep;13(3):342-349. doi: 10.1007/s12024-017-9882-5. Epub 2017 Jun 19. PubMed PMID: 28631109.
- Wendt FR (2020). ‘Bioinformatic tools for interrogating DNA recovered from human skeletal remains’ in Ambers A.D. (ed.) Forensic Genetics Approaches for the Identification of Human Skeletal Remains. Elsevier Science. Publication date: 15JUL2022. ISBN-13: 9780128157664.
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW (PREPRINT AVAILABLE)
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Polimanti R. Phenome-wide association study of loci harboring de novo tandem repeat mutations in UK Biobank exomes. medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.26.22269821
- De Angelis F, Zeleznik OA, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, De Lillo A, Koller D, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Clifford RE, Maihofer AX, Nievergelt CM, Curhan GC, Curhan SC, Polimanti R. Sex-differences, cross-ancestry generalizability, and noise-smoking interactions in the polygenic architecture of hearing loss in adults. medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.26.22269898.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Singh K, Stein MB, Koenen KC, Krystal JH, Gelernter J, Davis LK, Polimanti R. Sex-specific genetic and transcriptomic liability to neuroticism. MedRxiv link not yet available.
- Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Vahey J, Qin X, Koller D, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Harrington K, Haeny A, Nallakkandi R, Duong LM, Levey DF, De Angelis F, De Lillo A, Bigdeli T, Pyarajan S, VA Million Veteran Program, Gaziano JM, Gelernter J, Aslan M, Provenzale D, Helmer D, Hauser E, Polimanti R, on behalf of Department of Veteran Affairs Cooperative Study Program (#2006). Modeling the longitudinal changes of ancestry diversity in the Million Veteran Program. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.24.477583.
- Polimanti R, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tcheandjier, Hilliard AT, Levey DF, Adhikari K, Gaziano MJ, O’Donnell CJ, Assimes TL, Stein MB, Gelernter J. Understanding the dynamics linking posttraumatic stress severity and coronary artery disease using genome-wide information and electronic health records. MedRxiv link not yet available.
- Deak JD, Zhou H, Galimberti M, Levey DF, Wendt FR, Hatoum AS, Johnson EC, Walters R, Nunez YZ, Demontis D, Sanchez-Roige S, Kember RL, Justice AC, Edenberg H, Agrawal A, Polimanti R, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J. Genome-wide association study and multi-trait analysis of opioid use disorder (OUD) identifies novel loci and provides insight into the genetic etiology of OUD and substance use disorders. medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267094.
- Koller D, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, De Lillo A, De Angelis F, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Tucci S, Polimanti R. The impact of evolutionary processes in shaping the genetics of complex traits in East Asia and Europe: a specific contribution from Denisovan and Neanderthal introgression. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.12.456138.
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW (PREPRINT NOT AVAILABLE)
- Wendt FR, Garcia-Argibay M, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Valdimarsdóttir UA, Gelernter J, Stein MB, Maihofer AX, Nievergelt C, Larsson H, Mattheisen M, Polimanti R, Meier S. The relationship of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mendelian Randomization and Population-Based Sibling Comparison Study. Revise and resubmit at JAMA Psychiatry.
- Tuteja S, Yu Z, Wilson O, Chen HC, Wendt FR, Chung CP, Shah S, Hunt CM, Suzuki A, Chang KM, Hung AM. Pharmacogenetic variants and risk of remdesivir associated liver enzyme elevations in participants hospitalized with COVID-19 from the Million Veteran Program. Revise and resubmit at Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
- Tylee DS, Lee YK, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Levey DF, De Angelis F, Gelernter J, Polimanti R. Fenetically informed characterization of the effects linking psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes. Revise and resubmit at JAMA Psychiatry.
- Novroski NMM, Moo-Choy A, Wendt FR. Allele frequencies and minor contributor match statistic convergence using simulated population replicates. In review at International Journal of Legal Medicine.