Publications

  • Skaletski, E. C., Cortes-Cardona, S., & Travers, B. (under revision). The relation between specific motor skills and daily living skills in autistic children and adolescents. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

  • Surgent, O., Guerrero-Gonzalez, J., Dean, D. C. III., Adluru, N., Kirk, G. R., Kecskemeti, S. R., Alexander, A.L., Li, J. J., & Travers, B. G. (under review). Microstructural neural correlates of maximal grip strength in autistic children: The role of the cortico-cerebellar modification network and ADHD features. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.

  • Li, J. J., He, Q., Wang, Z., & Lu, Q. (under review). Enhancing the discriminatory power of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder polygenic scores in clinical and non-clinical samples. Preprint on MedRxiv. Preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.09.22270697

  • Skaletski, E. C., Barry, K., Dennis, E., Donnelly, R., Huerta, C., Jones, A., Schmidt, K., Kabakov, S., Ausderau, K. K., Li, J. J., & Travers, B. G. (2024). Sensorimotor Features and Daily Living Skills in Autistic Children With and Without ADHD. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 10.1007/s10803-024-06256-y. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06256-y
  • Travers, B. G., Surgent, O., Guerrero-Gonzalez, J., Dean, D. C., 3rd, Adluru, N., Kecskemeti, S. R., Kirk, G. R., Alexander, A. L., Zhu, J., Skaletski, E. C., Naik, S., & Duran, M. (2024). Role of autonomic, nociceptive, and limbic brainstem nuclei in core autism features. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 17(2), 266–279. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3096
  • Shen, M., Sirois, C.L., Guo, Y., Li, M., Dong, Q., Mendez-Albelo, N.M., Gao, Y., Khullar, S., Kissel, L., Sandoval, S.O., Wolkoff, N., Huang, S.X., Xu, Z., Bryan, J.E., Contractor, A., Korabelnikov, T., Glass, I.A., Doherty, D., Birth Defects Research Laboratory, Levine, J.E., Sousa, A.M.M., Chang, Q., Bhattacharyya, A., Wang, D., Werling, D.M., & Zhao, X. (2023). Species-specific FMRP regulation of RACK1 is critical for prenatal cortical development. Neuron, 111, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.09.014

  • Chandrashekar, P.B., Alatkar, S., Wang, J., Hoffman, G. E., He, C., Jin, T., Khullar, S., Bendl, J., Fullard, J. F., Roussos, P., & Wang, D. (2023). DeepGAMI: deep biologically guided auxiliary learning for multimodal integration and imputation to improve genotype–phenotype prediction. Genome Med, 15, 88. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-023-01248-6

  • He, Q., Keding, T., Zhang, Q., Miao, J., Herringa, R., Lu, Q., Travers, B., Li, J. J. (2023). Neurogenetic Mechanisms of Risk for ADHD: Examining Associations of Polygenic Scores and Brain Volumes in a Population Cohort. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 15(30). https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-023-09498-6

  • Alatkar, S. A., & Wang, D. (2023). CMOT: Cross-Modality Optimal Transport for multimodal inference. Genome biology, 24(1), 163. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-02989-8
  • Waszczuk, M. A., Jonas, K. G., Bornovalova, M., Breen, G., Bulik, C. M., Docherty, A. R., Eley, T. C., Hettema, J. M., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Lencz, T., Li, J. J., Vassos, E., & Waldman, I. D. (2023). Dimensional and transdiagnostic phenotypes in psychiatric genome-wide association studies. Molecular psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02142-8

  • Surgent, O. J., Guerrero-Gonzalez, J., Dean III, D. C., Kirk, G. R., Adluru, N., Kecskemeti, S. R., Alexander, A. L., Travers, B. G. (2023). How we get a grip: Microstructural neural correlated of manual grip strength in children. NeuroImage, 273https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120117

  • Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Li, J.J., Balling, C., Brandes, C., Bernat, E., Boness, C., Forbes, M., Forbush, K., Joyner, K., Krueger, R., Levin-Aspenson, H., Michelini, G., Ro, E., Rutter, L., Stanton, K., Tackett, J., Waszczuk, M., Eaton, N. (2023). Diversity and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Nat Rev Psychol, 2, 483–495. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00200-0

  • Guo, Y., Shen, M., Dong, Q., Mendez-Albelo, N.M., Le, J., Li, M., Huang, S.X., Jarzembowski, E.D., Schoeller, K.A., Stockton, M.E., Sirois, C.L., Horner, V.L., Sousa, A.M.M., Gao, Y., Birth Defects Research Laboratory, Levine, J.E., Wang, D., Chang, Q., & Zhao, X. (2023). Elevated levels of FMRP-target MAP1B impair neuronal development and social behaviors via autophagy pathway. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3108. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39337-0

  • Rosas, S., Schoeller, K. A., Chang, E., Mei, H., Kats, M. A., Eliceiri, K. W., Zhao, X., & Yesilkoy, F. (2023). Metasurface-Enhanced Mid-Infrared Spectrochemical Imaging of Tissues. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 35(28), e2301208. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202301208

  • Cohen Kalafut, N., Huang, X. & Wang, D. (2023). Joint variational autoencoders for multimodal imputation and embedding. Nat Mach Intell, 5, 631–642. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00663-z

  • Gao, Y., Syed, M., & Zhao, X. (2023). Mechanisms underlying the effect of voluntary running on adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Hippocampus, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23520

  • He, C., Kalafut, N. C., Sandoval, S. O., Risgaard, R., Sirois, C. L., Yang, C., Khullar, S., Suzuki, M., Huang, X., Chang, Q., Zhao, X., Sousa, A. M. M., & Wang, D. (2023). BOMA, a machine-learning framework for comparative gene expression analysis across brains and organoids. Cell reports methods, 3(2), 100409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100409

  • Ludwig, A. L., Mayerl, S. J., Gao, Y., Banghart, M., Bacig, C., Fernandez Zepeda, M. A., Zhao, X., & Gamm, D. M. (2023). Re-formation of synaptic connectivity in dissociated human stem cell-derived retinal organoid cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(2), e2213418120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213418120

  • Liu, S., Won, H., Clarke, D., Matoba, N., Khullar, S., Mu, Y., Wang, D., & Gerstein, M. (2022). Illuminating links between cis-regulators and trans-acting variants in the human prefrontal cortex. Genome medicine, 14(1), 133. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-022-01133-8

  • Gupta, C., Xu, J., Jin, T., Khullar, S., Liu, X., Alatkar, S., Cheng, F., & Wang, D. (2022). Single-cell network biology characterizes cell type gene regulation for drug repurposing and phenotype prediction in Alzheimer’s disease. PLoS computational biology, 18(7), e1010287. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010287

  • Zhang, Q., & Li, J. J. (2022). Explaining the Prospective Association of Positive and Negative Parenting Behaviors and Child ADHD Symptoms: Pathways Through Child Executive Function and Reward Responsivity. Journal of attention disorders, 26(13), 1774–1787. https://doi.org/10.1177/10870547221104079

  • Kotov, R., Cicero, D. C., Conway, C. C., DeYoung, C. G., Dombrovski, A., Eaton, N. R., First, M. B., Forbes, M. K., Hyman, S. E., Jonas, K. G., Krueger, R. F., Latzman, R. D., Li, J. J., Nelson, B. D., Regier, D. A., Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Ruggero, C. J., Simms, L. J., Skodol, A. E., Waldman, I. D., … Wright, A. G. C. (2022). The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research. Psychological medicine, 52(9), 1666–1678. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722001301

  • Javadi, S., Li, Y., Sheng, J., Zhao, L., Fu, Y., Wang, D., & Zhao, X. (2022). Sustained correction of hippocampal neurogenic and cognitive deficits after a brief treatment by Nutlin-3 in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome. BMC medicine, 20(1), 163. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02370-9

  • Gupta, C., Chandrashekar, P., Jin, T., He, C., Khullar, S., Chang, Q., & Wang, D. (2022). Bringing machine learning to research on intellectual and developmental disabilities: taking inspiration from neurological diseases. Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 14(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-022-09438-w