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Michael Wainberg
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Single-cell transcriptomics of human brain disorders.
Molecular psychiatry · 2026 · senior author
The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals.
Nature medicine · 2026
The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
Latest funding
- $120,000
The genetic underpinnings of fibromyalgia: a meta-analysis of 12 population-scale cohorts
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
- $38,000
Methods for fine-mapping causal genes, variants and cell types underlying genome-wide association study associations
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $12,500
Methods for fine-mapping causal genes, variants and cell types underlying genome-wide association study associations
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
23 publications.
Single-cell transcriptomics of human brain disorders.
Arbabi K, Carito G, Luquez T, Wainberg M
The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals.
Kerrebijn I, Bjornsdottir G, Arbabi K, Urpa L, Haapaniemi H, Thorleifsson G, Stefansdottir L, Frangakis S, Valliere J, Kunorozva L, Abner E, Ji C, Kangur M, Aagaard B, Bliddal H, Brunak S, Bruun MT, Didriksen M, Erikstrup C, Finer S, Geirsson AJ, Gudbjartsson DF, Hansen TF, van Heel D, Jonsdottir I, Knight S, Knowlton KU, Mikkelsen C, Nadauld LD, Olafsdottir TA, Ostrowski SR, Pedersen OBV, Saevarsdottir S, Skuladottir AT, Sørensen E, Stefansson H, Sulem P, Sveinsson OA, Thorlacius GE, Thorsteinsdottir U, Ullum H, Vikingsson A, Werge TM, Chronic Pain Genomics Consortium, FinnGen, DBDS Genomic Consortium, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Genes & Health Research Team, Saxena R, Stefansson K, Brummett CM, Glintborg B, Clauw DJ, Thorgeirsson TE, Williams FMK, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Ollila HM, Wainberg M
The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals.
Kerrebijn I, Bjornsdottir G, Arbabi K, Urpa L, Haapaniemi H, Thorleifsson G, Stefansdottir L, Frangakis S, Valliere J, Kunorozva L, Abner E, Ji C, Aagaard B, Bliddal H, Brunak S, Bruun MT, Didriksen M, Erikstrup C, Geirsson AJ, Gudbjartsson DF, Hansen TF, Jonsdottir I, Knight S, Knowlton KU, Mikkelsen C, Nadauld LD, Olafsdottir TA, Ostrowski SR, Pedersen OB, Saevarsdottir S, Skuladottir AT, Sørensen E, Stefansson H, Sulem P, Sveinsson OA, Thorlacius GE, Thorsteinsdottir U, Ullum H, Vikingsson A, Werge TM, Chronic Pain Genomics Consortium, FinnGen, DBDS Genomic Consortium, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Genes & Health Research Team, Saxena R, Stefansson K, Brummett CM, Glintborg B, Clauw DJ, Thorgeirsson TE, Williams FM, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Ollila HM, Wainberg M
ASiDentify (ASiD): a machine learning model to predict new autism spectrum disorder risk genes.
Rynard KM, Han K, Wainberg M, Calarco JA, Lee HO, Lipshitz HD, Smibert CA, Tripathy SJ
Transcriptomic pathology of neocortical microcircuit cell types across psychiatric disorders.
Arbabi K, Newton DF, Oh H, Davie MC, Lewis DA, Wainberg M, Tripathy SJ, Sibille E
Neonatal Brain Injury Triggers Niche-Specific Changes to Cellular Biogeography.
Tahmasian N, Feng MY, Arbabi K, Rusu B, Cao W, Kukreja B, Lubotzky A, Wainberg M, Tripathy SJ, Kalish BT
Reported race-associated differences in control and schizophrenia post-mortem brain transcriptomes implicate stress-related and neuroimmune pathways.
Simmons S, Arbabi K, Felsky D, Wainberg M, Tripathy SJ
Genetic architecture of the structural connectome.
Wainberg M, Forde NJ, Mansour S, Kerrebijn I, Medland SE, Hawco C, Tripathy SJ
Opposing brain signatures of sleep in task-based and resting-state conditions.
Abdelhack M, Zhukovsky P, Milic M, Harita S, Wainberg M, Tripathy SJ, Griffiths JD, Hill SL, Felsky D
Case-control virtual histology elucidates cell types associated with cortical thickness differences in Alzheimer's disease.
Kerrebijn I, Wainberg M, Zhukovsky P, Chen Y, Davie M, Felsky D, Tripathy SJ
The genetic underpinnings of fibromyalgia: a meta-analysis of 12 population-scale cohorts
Principal investigators: Kerrebijn, Isabel P
Keywords: Biobanks; Causal Genes And Cell Types; Disease Heritability; Fibromyalgia; Gene-By-Sex Interactions; Genetic Correlations; Genetics; Genome-Wide Association Studies; Meta-Analysis; Polygenic Risk Scores
Methods for fine-mapping causal genes, variants and cell types underlying genome-wide association study associations
Principal investigators: Wainberg, Michael
Keywords: genetic association studies; genome-wide association studies; fine-mapping; causal variants and genes; network biology; machine learning; quantitative trait loci; single-cell; chromatin accessibility; bayesian modelling
Methods for fine-mapping causal genes, variants and cell types underlying genome-wide association study associations
Principal investigators: Wainberg, Michael
Keywords: genetic association studies; genome-wide association studies; fine-mapping; causal variants and genes; network biology; machine learning; quantitative trait loci; single-cell; chromatin accessibility; bayesian modelling
Genetic underpinnings of functional disorders and symptoms
Principal investigators: Wainberg, Michael
Keywords: Biobanks; Functional Disorders; Gene-By-Environment Interactions; Gene-By-Sex Interactions; Genome-Wide Association Studies; Genomic Structural Equation Modelling; Machine Learning; Nosology; Pleiotropy; Polygenic Risk Scores
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Daniel Felsky and Michael Wainberg: 9 shared papers
- Etienne Sibille and Daniel Felsky: 6 shared papers
- Abigail Ortiz and Stefan Kloiber: 6 shared papers
- Daniel Felsky and Peter Zhukovsky: 5 shared papers
- Aristotle Voineskos and Colin Hawco: 4 shared papers
- Colin Hawco and Peter Zhukovsky: 4 shared papers
- Michael Wainberg and Peter Zhukovsky: 4 shared papers
- Aristotle Voineskos and Daniel Felsky: 3 shared papers
- Aristotle Voineskos and Peter Zhukovsky: 3 shared papers
- Etienne Sibille and Colin Hawco: 2 shared papers
- Colin Hawco and Abigail Ortiz: 2 shared papers
- Colin Hawco and Michael Wainberg: 2 shared papers
- Abigail Ortiz and Peter Zhukovsky: 2 shared papers
- Stefan Kloiber and Daniel Felsky: 2 shared papers
- Sidney Kennedy and Aristotle Voineskos: 1 shared paper
- Sidney Kennedy and Colin Hawco: 1 shared paper
- Sidney Kennedy and Daniel Felsky: 1 shared paper
- Sidney Kennedy and Michael Wainberg: 1 shared paper
- Aristotle Voineskos and Michael Wainberg: 1 shared paper
- Sebastien Jacquemont and Michael Wainberg: 1 shared paper
- Etienne Sibille and Michael Wainberg: 1 shared paper
- Abigail Ortiz and Michael Wainberg: 1 shared paper
- Stefan Kloiber and Michael Wainberg: 1 shared paper
- Michael Wainberg and Brendan Frey: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychiatry
- Biostatistics Division
- Brain Imaging
- Head Office
- Pediatrics
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Daniel Felsky
Department of Psychiatry
9 shared papers, latest 2024
Peter Zhukovsky
Faculty
4 shared papers, latest 2023
Colin Hawco
Brain Imaging
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Brendan Frey
Head Office
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Sebastien Jacquemont
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Etienne Sibille
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Sidney Kennedy
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Abigail Ortiz
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Stefan Kloiber
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Aristotle Voineskos
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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