2010

41. Liu Y, Blackwood DH, Caesar S, de Geus EJ, Farmer A, Ferreira MA, Ferrier IN, Fraser C, Gordon-Smith K, Green EK, Grozeva D, Gurling HM, Hamshere ML, Heutink P, Holmans PA, Hoogendijk WJ, Hottenga JJ, Jones L, Jones IR, Kirov G, Lin D, McGuffin P, Moskvina V, Nolen WA, Perlis RH, Posthuma D, Scolnick EM, Smit AB, Smit JH, Smoller JW, St Clair D, van Dyck R, Verhage M, Willemsen G, Young AH, Zandbelt T, Boomsma DI, Craddock N, O'Donovan MC, Owen MJ, Penninx BW, Purcell S, Sklar P, Sullivan PF. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2010 Mar 30. [Epub ahead of print]

40. Doyle AE, Biederman J, Ferreira MA, Wong P, Smoller JW, Faraone SV (2010) Suggestive Linkage of the Child Behavior Checklist Juvenile Bipolar Disorder Phenotype to 1p21, 6p21, and 8q21. J Am Acad Child Adol Psych [Epub ahead of print]

39. Ferreira MA, Oates NA, van Vliet J, Zhao ZZ, Ehrich M, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Whitelaw E, Duffy DL (2010) Characterization of the methylation patterns of MS4A2 in atopic cases and controls. Allergy 65(3): 333-337 pdf

38. Bouzigon E, Forabosco P, Koppelman GH, Cookson WO, Dizier MH, Duffy DL, Evans DM, Ferreira MA, Kere J, Laitinen T, Malerba G, Meyers DA, Moffatt M, Martin NG, Ng MY, Pignatti PF, Wjst M, Kauffmann F, Demenais F, Lewis CM (2010) Meta-analysis of 20 genome-wide linkage studies evidenced new regions linked to asthma and atopy. Eur J Hum Genet. 2010 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print]

37. Ferreira MA, Mangino M, Brumme CJ, Zhao ZZ, Medland SE, Wright MJ, Nyholt DR, Gordon S, Campbell M, McEvoy BP, Henders A, Evans DM, Lanchbury JS, Pereyra F; International HIV Controllers Study, Walker BD, Haas DW, Soranzo N, Spector TD, de Bakker PI, Frazer IH, Montgomery GW, Martin NG (2010) Quantitative Trait Loci for CD4:CD8 Lymphocyte Ratio Are Associated with Risk of Type 1 Diabetes and HIV-1 Immune Control. Am J Hum Genet 86: 88-92. pdf supp

2009

36. Medland SE, Nyholt DR, Painter JN, McEvoy BP, McRae AF, Zhu G, Gordon SD, Ferreira MA, Wright MJ, Henders AK, Campbell MJ, Duffy DL, Hansell NK, Macgregor S, Slutske WS, Heath AC, Montgomery GW, Martin NG (2009) Common Variants in the Trichohyalin Gene Are Associated with Straight Hair in Europeans. Am J Hum Genet 85(5):750-5.

35. Ferreira MA, Hottenga JJ, Warrington NM, Medland SE, Willemsen G, Lawrence RW, Gordon S, de Geus EJ, Henders AK, Smit JH, Campbell MJ, Wallace L, Evans DM, Wright MJ, Nyholt DR, James AL, Beilby JP, Penninx BW, Palmer LJ, Frazer IH, Montgomery GW, Martin NG, Boomsma DI (2009) Sequence variants in three loci influence monocyte counts and erythrocyte volume. Am J Hum Genet 85(5):745-9 pdf supp

34. Ferreira MA, Zhao ZZ, Thomsen SF, James M, Evans DM, Postmus PE, Kyvik KO, Backer V, Boomsma DI, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Duffy DL (2009) Association and interaction analyses of eight genes under asthma linkage peaks. Allergy 64(11):1623-8 pdf supp

33. Benyamin B, Ferreira MA, Willemsen G, Gordon S, Middelberg RP, McEvoy BP, Hottenga JJ, Henders AK, Campbell MJ, Wallace L, Frazer IH, Heath AC, de Geus EJ, Nyholt DR, Visscher PM, Penninx BW, Boomsma DI, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Whitfield JB (2009) Common variants in TMPRSS6 are associated with iron status and erythrocyte volume. Nat Genet 41(11):1173-5.

32. The International Schizophrenia Consortium (2009) Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Nature 460 (7256):748-52.

31. Holmans P, Green EK, Pahwa JS, Ferreira MA, Purcell SM, Sklar P; The Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium, Owen MJ, O'Donovan MC, Craddock N (2009) Gene Ontology Analysis of GWA Study Data Sets Provides Insights into the Biology of Bipolar Disorder. Am J Hum Genet 85(1):13-24.

30. Perlis RH, Smoller JW, Ferreira MA, McQuillin A, Bass N, Lawrence J, Sachs GS, Nimgaonkar V, Scolnick EM, Gurling H, Sklar P, Purcell S (2009) A genomewide association study of response to lithium for prevention of recurrence in bipolar disorder. Am J Psychiatry 166(6):718-25.

29. Thomsen SF, Ferreira MA, Kyvik KO, Fenger M, Backer V (2009) A quantitative genetic analysis of intermediate asthma phenotypes. Allergy 64(3):427-30.

28. Ferreira MA and Purcell SM (2009) A multivariate test of association. Bioinformatics 25(1):132-3. pdf supp

2008

27. Doyle AE, Ferreira MA, Sklar PB, Lasky-Su J, Petty C, Fusillo SJ, Seidman LJ, Willcutt EG, Smoller JW, Purcell S, Biederman J, Faraone SV (2008) Multivariate genomewide linkage scan of neurocognitive traits and ADHD symptoms: suggestive linkage to 3q13. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147B(8):1399-411.

26. de Bakker PI, Ferreira MA, Jia X, Neale BM, Raychaudhuri S, Voight BF (2008) Practical aspects of imputation-driven meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Hum Mol Genet 17(R2):R122-8.

25. Ferreira MA, O'Donovan MC, Meng YA, Jones IR, Ruderfer DM, Jones L, Fan J, Kirov G, Perlis RH, Green EK, Smoller JW, Grozeva D, Stone J, Nikolov I, Chambert K, Hamshere ML, Nimgaonkar VL, Moskvina V, Thase ME, Caesar S, Sachs GS, Franklin J, Gordon-Smith K, Ardlie KG, Gabriel SB, Fraser C, Blumenstiel B, Defelice M, Breen G, Gill M, Morris DW, Elkin A, Muir WJ, McGhee KA, Williamson R, Macintyre DJ, Maclean AW, St Clair D, Robinson M, Van Beck M, Pereira AC, Kandaswamy R, McQuillin A, Collier DA, Bass NJ, Young AH, Lawrence J, Nicol Ferrier I, Anjorin A, Farmer A, Curtis D, Scolnick EM, McGuffin P, Daly MJ, Corvin AP, Holmans PA, Blackwood DH; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Gurling HM, Owen MJ, Purcell SM, Sklar P, Craddock N. (2008) Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder. Nature Genetics 40(9):1056-8 pdf supp

24. Denham S, Koppelman GH, Blakey J, Wjst M, Ferreira MA, Hall IP, Sayers I. (2008) Meta-analysis of genome-wide linkage studies of asthma and related traits. Respir Res 9:38.

23. Cozen W, Ferreira MA (2008) Understanding the asthma epidemic: can twin studies help? Twin Res Hum Genet 11(2):111.

22. Sklar P, Smoller JW, Fan J, Ferreira MA, Perlis RH, Chambert K, Nimgaonkar VL, McQueen MB, Faraone SV, Kirby A, de Bakker PI, Ogdie MN, Thase ME, Sachs GS, Todd-Brown K, Gabriel SB, Sougnez C, Gates C, Blumenstiel B, Defelice M, Ardlie KG, Franklin J, Muir WJ, McGhee KA, MacIntyre DJ, McLean A, VanBeck M, McQuillin A, Bass NJ, Robinson M, Lawrence J, Anjorin A, Curtis D, Scolnick EM, Daly MJ, Blackwood DH, Gurling HM, Purcell SM. (2007) Whole-genome Association Study of Bipolar Disorder. Mol Psychiatry 13(6):558-69.

21. Weiss LA, Shen Y, Korn JM, Arking DE, Miller DT, Fossdal R, Saemundsen E, Stefansson H, Ferreira MA, Green T, Platt OS, Ruderfer DM, Walsh CA, Altshuler D, Chakravarti A, Tanzi RE, Stefansson K, Santangelo SL, Gusella JF, Sklar P, Wu BL, Daly MJ; Autism Consortium. (2007) Association between microdeletion and microduplication at 16p11.2 and autism. N Engl J Med 358(7)667-75.

2007

20. Purcell S, Neale B, Todd-Brown K, Thomas L, Ferreira M.A., Bender D, Maller J, Sklar P, de Bakker PIW, Daly MJ & Sham PC. (2007) PLINK: a toolset for whole-genome association and population-based linkage analysis. Am J Hum Genet, 81(3), 559-75.

19. Whitfield JB, Dy V, McQuilty R, Zhu G, Montgomery GW, Ferreira MA, Duffy DL, Neale MC, Heijmans BT, Heath AC, Martin NG. (2007) Evidence of genetic effects on blood lead concentration. Environ Health Perspect, 115(8):1224-1230.

18. Ferreira, M.A. Factors affecting type-I error and power of linkage analysis. in Statistical Genetics: gene mapping through linkage and association. Neale BM, Ferreira MA, Medland SE, & Posthuma D (Eds.) Taylor and Francis, London (2007). ISBN 9780415410403. link

17. Ferreira, M.A., Sham, P., Daly, M.J. and Purcell, S. (2007) Ascertainment through family history of disease often decreases the power of family-based association studies. Behav Genet, 37(4), 631-6. pdf

2006

16. Thomsen, S.F., Ulrik, C.S., Kyvik, K.O., Ferreira, M.A. and Backer, V. (2006) Multivariate genetic analysis of atopy phenotypes in a selected sample of twins. Clinical & Experimental Allergy 36(11):1382-90.

15. Ferreira MA, Visscher PM, Martin NG, Duffy DL. (2006) A simple method to localise pleiotropic susceptibility loci using univariate linkage analyses of correlated traits. Eur J Hum Genet 14(8):953-62. pdf

14. Visscher, P.M., Medland, S.E., Ferreira, M.A. et al. (2006) Assumption-Free Estimation of Heritability from Genome-Wide Identity-by-Descent Sharing between Full Siblings. PLoS Genet, 2, e41.

13. Ferreira, M.A., O'Gorman, L., Le Souef, P. et al. (2006) Variance components analyses of multiple asthma traits in a large sample of Australian families ascertained through a twin proband. Allergy, 61, 245-53. pdf

12. Morley, K.I., Medland, S.E., Ferreira, M.A. et al. (2006) A Possible Smoking Susceptibility Locus on Chromosome 11p12: Evidence from Sex-limitation Linkage Analyses in a Sample of Australian Twin Families. Behav Genet, 36(1): 87-99.

11. Hansell, N.K., Medland, S.E., Ferreira, M.A. et al. (2006) Linkage Analyses of Event-Related Potential Slow Wave Phenotypes Recorded in a Working Memory Task. Behav Genet, 36(1): 29-44.

2005

10. Ferreira, M.A., O'Gorman, L., Le Souef, P. et al. (2005) Robust estimation of experimentwise P values applied to a genome scan of multiple asthma traits identifies a new region of significant linkage on chromosome 20q13. Am J Hum Genet, 77, 1075-85. pdf

9. Cornes, B.K., Medland, S.E., Ferreira, M.A. et al. (2005) Sex-limited genome-wide linkage scan for body mass index in an unselected sample of 933 Australian twin families. Twin Res Hum Genet, 8, 616-32.

8. Nyholt, D.R., Morley, K.I., Ferreira, M.A. et al. (2005) Genomewide Significant Linkage to Latent Class Analysis Derived Migrainous Headache on Chromosome 5q21. Am J Hum Genet, 77, 500-512.

2004-2003

7. Ferreira, M.A. (2004) Linkage analysis: principles and methods for the analysis of human quantitative traits. Twin Res, 7, 513-30. pdf

6. Ferreira, M.A. (2004) Inflammation in allergic asthma: initiating events, immunological response and risk factors. Respirology, 9, 16-24. pdf

5. Ferreira, M.A. (2003) Cytokine expression in allergic inflammation: systematic review of in vivo challenge studies. Mediators Inflamm, 12, 259-67. pdf

Non-medical

4. Catry, T., Ramos, J.A., Catry, I., Revez, M.A. and Grade, N. (2004) Are salinas a suitable alternative breeding habitat for Little Terns Sterna albifrons? Ibis, 146, 247-257. pdf

3. Revez, M.A., Catry, T. and Catry, I. (2002) An experimental approach to egg predation in a Little Tern Sterna albirfrons colony. Airo, 12, 101-103. pdf

2. Fonseca, P.J. and Revez, M.A. (2002) Temperature dependence of cicada songs (Homoptera, Cicadoidea). J Comp Physiol A, 187, 971-6. pdf

1. Fonseca, P.J. and Revez, M.A. (2002) Song discrimination by male cicadas Cicada barbara lusitanica (Homoptera, Cicadidae). J Exp Biol, 205, 1285-92.[honours thesis] pdf