Dr Najaf Amin
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Najaf Amin
MSc, DSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular Epidemiology
Dr Amin has a background in mathematics and statistics and received her PhD degree in genetic epidemiology from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2011.
Her main area of research is identifying biomarkers for neuro-psychiatric traits using plasma/CSF/brain-based and single cell-based integrative multi-omics research. She works with molecular data including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics as well as gut microbiome. She is also interested in identifying causal relationships using Mendelian Randomisation, and translation of her findings using cell-based research. Dr Amin has had over 330 scientific research papers published in various international journals and ranks among the top 200 scientists in the world in the field of genetics.
Recent publications
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A rare variant in <i>GPR156</i> associated with depression in a Mennonite pedigree causes habenula hyperactivity and stress sensitivity in mice.
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Miller BR. et al, (2025), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122
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Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality.
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Argentieri MA. et al, (2025), Nat Med
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X‐chromosome-wide association study for Alzheimer’s disease
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Le Borgne J. et al, (2024), Molecular Psychiatry
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Peripheral inflammation is associated with brain atrophy and cognitive decline linked to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
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Liang N. et al, (2024), Scientific Reports, 14
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Genome-wide association neural networks identify genes linked to family history of Alzheimer's disease.
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Ghose U. et al, (2024), Brief Bioinform, 26