Dr Brittany Mitchell
Honorary Fellow
School of Biomedical Sciences
QIMR Berghofer
Book Chapter
Morosoli, José J., Mitchell, Brittany L. and Medland, Sarah E. (2022). Methodology of twin studies. Twin research for everyone: from biology to health, epigenetics, and psychology. (pp. 189-214) edited by Adam Tarnoki, David Tarnoki, Jennifer Harris and Nancy Segal. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-821514-2.00035-0
Journal Articles
Crouse, Jacob J., Park, Shin Ho, Byrne, Enda M., Mitchell, Brittany L., Scott, Jan, Medland, Sarah E., Lin, Tian, Wray, Naomi R., Martin, Nicholas G. and Hickie, Ian B. (2024). Patterns of stressful life events and polygenic scores for five mental disorders and neuroticism among adults with depression. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02492-x
Crouse, Jacob J., Park, Shin Ho, Byrne, Enda M., Mitchell, Brittany L., Chan, Karina, Scott, Jan, Medland, Sarah E., Martin, Nicholas G., Wray, Naomi R. and Hickie, Ian B. (2024). Evening chronotypes with depression report poorer outcomes of SSRIs: A survey-based study of self-ratings. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.023
García-Marín, Luis M., Reyes-Pérez, Paula, Diaz-Torres, Santiago, Medina-Rivera, Alejandra, Martin, Nicholas G., Mitchell, Brittany L. and Rentería, Miguel E. (2023). Shared molecular genetic factors influence subcortical brain morphometry and Parkinson’s disease risk. npj Parkinson's Disease, 9 (1) 73, 73. doi: 10.1038/s41531-023-00515-y
Campos, Adrian I., Ingold, Nathan, Huang, Yunru, Mitchell, Brittany L., Kho, Pik-Fang, Han, Xikun, García-Marín, Luis M., Ong, Jue-Sheng, 23andMe Research Team, Law, Matthew H., Yokoyama, Jennifer S., Martin, Nicholas G., Dong, Xianjun, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, MacGregor, Stuart, Aslibekyan, Stella and Rentería, Miguel E. (2023). Discovery of genomic loci associated with sleep apnoea risk through multi-trait GWAS analysis with snoring. Sleep, 46 (3) zsac308, 1-14. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsac308
Thorp, Jackson G, Mitchell, Brittany L., Gerring, Zachary F, Ong, Jue-Sheng, Gharahkhani, Puya, Derks, Eske M. and Lupton, Michelle K. (2022). Genetic evidence that the causal association of educational attainment with reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease is driven by intelligence. Neurobiology of Aging, 119, 127-135. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.07.011
Crouse, Jacob J., Ho, Nicholas, Scott, Jan, Parker, Richard, Park, Shin Ho, Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste, Mitchell, Brittany, Byrne, Enda M., Hermens, Daniel F., Medland, Sarah E., Martin, Nicholas G., Gillespie, Nathan A. and Hickie, Ian B. (2022). Dynamic networks of psychological symptoms, impairment, substance use, and social support: the evolution of psychopathology among emerging adults. European Psychiatry, 65 (1) e32, 1-24. doi: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.23
Mitchell, Brittany L., Saklatvala, Jake R., Dand, Nick, Hagenbeek, Fiona A., Li, Xin, Min, Josine L., Thomas, Laurent, Bartels, Meike, Jan Hottenga, Jouke, Lupton, Michelle K., Boomsma, Dorret I., Dong, Xianjun, Hveem, Kristian, Løset, Mari, Martin, Nicholas G., Barker, Jonathan N., Han, Jiali, Smith, Catherine H., Rentería, Miguel E. and Simpson, Michael A. (2022). Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 29 new acne susceptibility loci. Nature Communications, 13 (1) 702, 702. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28252-5
Bivol, Svetlana, Mellick, George D., Gratten, Jacob, Parker, Richard, Mulcahy, Aoibhe, Mosley, Philip E., Poortvliet, Peter C., Campos, Adrian I., Mitchell, Brittany L., Garcia-Marin, Luis M., Cross, Simone, Ferguson, Mary, Lind, Penelope A., Loesch, Danuta Z., Visscher, Peter M., Medland, Sarah E., Scherzer, Clemens R., Martin, Nicholas G. and Rentería, Miguel E. (2022). Australian Parkinson’s Genetics Study (APGS): pilot (n=1532). BMJ Open, 12 (2) e052032, e052032. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052032
Campos, Adrian I., Byrne, Enda M., Mitchell, Brittany L., Wray, Naomi R., Lind, Penelope A., Licinio, Julio, Medland, Sarah E., Martin, Nicholas G., Hickie, Ian B. and Rentería, Miguel E. (2022). Impact of CYP2C19 metaboliser status on SSRI response: a retrospective study of 9500 participants of the Australian Genetics of Depression Study. The Pharmacogenomics Journal, 22 (2), 130-135. doi: 10.1038/s41397-022-00267-7
Mitchell, Brittany L., Campos, Adrian I., Whiteman, David C., Olsen, Catherine M., Gordon, Scott D., Walker, Adam J., Dean, Olivia M., Berk, Michael, Hickie, Ian B., Medland, Sarah E., Wray, Naomi R., Martin, Nicholas G. and Byrne, Enda M. (2021). The Australian Genetics of Depression Study: new risk loci and dissecting heterogeneity between subtypes. Biological Psychiatry, 92 (3), 227-235. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.10.021
Arends, Rachel M., Pasman, Joëlle A., Verweij, Karin J.H., Derks, Eske M., Gordon, Scott D., Hickie, Ian, Thomas, Nathaniel S., Aliev, Fazil, Zietsch, Brendan P., van der Zee, Matthijs D., Mitchell, Brittany L., Martin, Nicholas G., Dick, Danielle M., Gillespie, Nathan A., de Geus, Eco J.C., Boomsma, Dorret I., Schellekens, Arnt F.A. and Vink, Jacqueline M. (2021). Associations between the CADM2 gene, substance use, risky sexual behavior, and self-control: A phenome-wide association study. Addiction Biology, 26 (6) e13015, e13015. doi: 10.1111/adb.13015
Scott, Jan, Crouse, Jacob J., Ho, Nicholas, Carpenter, Joanne, Martin, Nicholas, Medland, Sarah, Parker, Richard, Byrne, Enda, Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste, Mitchell, Brittany, Merikangas, Kathleen, Gillespie, Nathan A. and Hickie, Ian (2021). Can network analysis of self-reported psychopathology shed light on the core phenomenology of bipolar disorders in adolescents and young adults?. Bipolar Disorders, 23 (6), 584-594. doi: 10.1111/bdi.13067
Hwang, Liang-Dar, Mitchell, Brittany L., Medland, Sarah E., Martin, Nicholas G., Neale, Michael C. and Evans, David M. (2021). The augmented Classical Twin Design: incorporating genome‐wide identity by descent sharing into twin studies in order to model violations of the equal environments assumption. Behavior Genetics, 51 (3), 223-236. doi: 10.1007/s10519-021-10044-0
Mitchell, Brittany L., Kirk, Katherine M., McAloney, Kerrie, Wright, Margaret J., Davenport, Tracey A., Hermens, Daniel F., Scott, James G., McGrath, John J., Gillespie, Nathan A., Carpenter, Joanne S., O’Callaghan, Victoria S., Medland, Sarah, Christensen, Helen, Martin, Nicholas G., Burns, Jane M. and Hickie, Ian B. (2021). 16Up: Outline of a study investigating wellbeing and information and communication technology use in adolescent twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 23 (6) PII S1832427420000833, 1-13. doi: 10.1017/thg.2020.83
Mitchell, Brittany L., Cuéllar-Partida, Gabriel, Grasby, Katrina L., Campos, Adrian I., Strike, Lachlan T., Hwang, Liang-Dar, Okbay, Aysu, Thompson, Paul M., Medland, Sarah E., Martin, Nicholas G., Wright, Margaret J. and Rentería, Miguel E. (2020). Educational attainment polygenic scores are associated with cortical total surface area and regions important for language and memory. NeuroImage, 212 116691, 116691. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116691
Revez, Joana A., Lin, Tian, Qiao, Zhen, Xue, Angli, Holtz, Yan, Zhu, Zhihong, Zeng, Jian, Wang, Huanwei, Sidorenko, Julia, Kemper, Kathryn E., Vinkhuyzen, Anna A. E., Frater, Julanne, Eyles, Darryl, Burne, Thomas H. J., Mitchell, Brittany, Martin, Nicholas G., Zhu, Gu, Visscher, Peter M., Yang, Jian, Wray, Naomi R. and McGrath, John J. (2020). Genome-wide association study identifies 143 loci associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 1647, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15421-7
Mitchell, Brittany L., Zhu, Gu, Medland, Sarah E., Renteria, Miguel. E., Eyles, Darryl W., Grasby, Katrina L., McGrath, John J. and Martin, Nicholas G. (2019). Half the genetic variance in vitamin D concentration is shared with skin colour and sun exposure genes. Behavior Genetics, 49 (4), 386-398. doi: 10.1007/s10519-019-09954-x
Mitchell, Brittany L., Campos, Adrian I., Rentería, Miguel E., Parker, Richard, Sullivan, Lenore, McAloney, Kerrie, Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste, Medland, Sarah E., Gillespie, Nathan A., Scott, Jan, Zietsch, Brendan P., Lind, Penelope A., Martin, Nicholas G. and Hickie, Ian B. (2019). Twenty-Five and Up (25Up) Study: A New Wave of the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22 (03) PII S1832427419000276, 154-163. doi: 10.1017/thg.2019.27
Conference Papers
Medland, Sarah E., Mitchell, Brittany, Campos, Adrian, Whiteman, David C., Olsen, Catherine M., Siskind, Dan J., Hickie, Ian, Lind, Penelope A. and Martin, Nicholas G. (2022). Challenges to Incorporating Polygenic Risk Scores in Clinical Mental Health Practice. 51st Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association (BGA), Los Angeles Ca, Jun 22-25, 2022. NEW YORK: SPRINGER.
Hopkins, Kristen L., Lind, Penelope A., Mitchell, Brittany L., Whiteman, David C., Olsen, Catherine M., Siskind, Dan J., Hickie, Ian B., Martin, Nicholas G. and Medland, Sarah E. (2022). Can polygenic Risk Scores Predict Who Will Receive or Respond Better to Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder?. 51st Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association (BGA), Los Angeles Ca, Jun 22-25, 2022. NEW YORK: SPRINGER.