Biography
I have added significantly to the field of genomic research, both within psychiatric genomics and the wider genomics community, through valuable contributions to large multi-centre collaborations, my excellent research publication output, and the bioinformatics tools I have developed to improve our ability to study the effect of common and rare, protein-coding and regulatory variants. My work has led to a greater understanding of the types of genetic variants segregating in families and their possible functional roles in susceptibility to psychiatric illness and further underscored the lack of knowledge about the effects of genetic variants and the limitations of some of the sequencing technologies commonly used to fully describe the variation. I have extensive teaching experience and more than ten years PPI and science communication experience, including organising PPI events, scientific conferences and through my role as a member of the Outreach Committee for the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) a global research initiative involving 900+ scientists.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ormond C, Ryan NM, Byerley W, Heron EA, Corvin A, Investigating copy number variants in schizophrenia pedigrees using a new consensus pipeline called PECAN, Scientific Reports, 2024
Ormond C, Ryan NM, Corvin A, Heron EA., Converting single nucleotide variants between genome builds: from cautionary tale to solution., Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021
, Altered DNA methylation associated with a translocation linked to major mental illness., NPJ schizophrenia, 2018
, Genome-wide haplotype-based association analysis of major depressive disorder in Generation Scotland and UK Biobank., Translational psychiatry, 2017
, Identification of a novel locus on chromosome 2q13, which predisposes to clinical vertebral fractures independently of bone density., Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2017
, Balanced translocation linked to psychiatric disorder, glutamate, and cortical structure/function., NPJ schizophrenia, 2016
, Preliminary assessment of pre-morbid DNA methylation in individuals at high genetic risk of mood disorders., Bipolar disorders, 2016
, SuRFing the genomics wave: an R package for prioritising SNPs by functionality., Genome medicine, 2014