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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: New York, US

2022-08-02 to present | Assistant Professor (Psychiatry )
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Behrang Mahjani

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment: New York, NY, US

2017-10-01 to 2022-08-01 | Postdoctoral researcher (Psychiatry)
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Behrang Mahjani

Karolinska Institutet: Stockholm, SE

2016-07-01 to 2017-10-01 | Postdoctoral researcher (Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
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Behrang Mahjani

Education and qualifications (4)

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

2011-04-01 to 2016-07-01 | PhD in Scientific Computing / Thesis: Methods from Statistical Computing for Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits (IT)
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Behrang Mahjani

Chalmers University of Technology : Goteborg, SE

2008-09 to 2011-03-31 | Master's degree in Engineering Mathematics with specialization in Mathematical Statistics / Thesis: Exploring connectivity of random subgraphs of a graph (Mathematical Sciences )
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Behrang Mahjani

Chalmers University of Technology : Goteborg, SE

2005-09-01 to 2008-09-01 | Master's degree in Complex Adaptive Systems / Analyzing simpli ed coalescent algorithms
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Behrang Mahjani

KN Toosi University of Technology: Tehran, Tehran, IR

2000-09-01 to 2004-09-01 | B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Mathematics)
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Behrang Mahjani

Professional activities (1)

Faculty Opinions: London, GB

2022-02-18 to present | Associate Faculty Member
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Age- and Sex-Specific Prevalence of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Pediatric and Young Adults in a Swedish National Cohort

2025-03-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Lotta Renström-Koskela; L Viktor Skokic; Adrianna P. Kępińska; Danielle Scharp; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Keith Humphreys; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Dorothy E. Grice; Behrang Mahjani; Olof Akre
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Familial Risk and Heritability of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Children and Young Adults

2025-03-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Lotta Renström-Koskela; Viktor Skokic; Danielle Scharp; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Dorothy E. Grice; Behrang Mahjani; Olof Akre
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Rare Genetic Variants in Antisense Long Non-coding RNAs Contribute to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

2025-03-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Seulgi Jung; Madison Caballero; Shelby Smout; Behrang Mahjani
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Rare Variant Analyses in Ancestrally Diverse Cohorts Reveal Novel ADHD Risk Genes

2025-01-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Seulgi Jung; Madison Caballero; Emily Olfson; Jeffrey H. Newcorn; Thomas V. Fernandez; Behrang Mahjani
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Genetic Architecture of Postpartum Psychosis: From Common to Rare Genetic Variation

2024-12-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Seulgi Jung; Madison Caballero; Adrianna Kępińska; Shelby Smout; Trine Munk-Olsen; Thalia K. Robakis; Veerle Bergink; Behrang Mahjani
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Association of Parental Prenatal Mental Health on Offspring Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2024-09-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Adrianna P Kepinska; Shelby Smout; Thalia Robakis; Lily Cohen; Ingrid Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Alkistis Skalkidou; Veerle Bergink; Behrang Mahjani
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Identification of moderate effect size genes in autism spectrum disorder through a novel gene pairing approach

2024-04-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Madison Caballero; F Kyle Satterstrom; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Behrang Mahjani
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Direct additive genetics and maternal effect contribute to the risk of Tourette disorder

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lambertus Klei; Ariela S Buxbaum Grice; Henrik Larsson; Christina M Hultman; Sven Sandin; Bernie Devlin; Joseph D Buxbaum; Dorothy E Grice
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Familial risk of postpartum psychosis

2023-07-26 | Preprint
Contributors: Adrianna P. Kępińska; Thalia K. Robakis; Keith Humphreys; Xiaoqin Liu; René S. Kahn; Trine Munk-Olsen; Veerle Bergink; Behrang Mahjani
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Comorbidities in autism spectrum disorder and their etiologies

Translational Psychiatry
2023-02-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Vahe Khachadourian; Behrang Mahjani; Sven Sandin; Alexander Kolevzon; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Abraham Reichenberg; Magdalena Janecka
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Systematic review and meta-analysis: relationships between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and urinary symptoms in children

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Mahjani, Behrang; Koskela, Lotta Renstrom; Mahjani, Christina Gustavsson; Janecka, Magdalena; Batuure, Anita; Hultman, Christina M.; Reichenberg, Abraham; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Akre, Olof; Grice, Dorothy E.
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Psychometric properties of the Swedish translation of the Obsessive–Compulsive Inventory-Revised and the population characteristics of the symptom dimensions of OCD

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Abraham Reichenberg; Sven Sandin; Christina M. Hultman; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Dorothy E. Grice
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Phenotypic Impact of Rare Potentially Damaging Copy Number Variation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Chronic Tic Disorders

Genes
2022-10-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Rebecca Birnbaum; Ariela Buxbaum Grice; Carolina Cappi; Seulgi Jung; Marina Natividad Avila; Abraham Reichenberg; Sven Sandin; Christina M. Hultman; Joseph D. Buxbaum et al.
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The Genetic Architecture of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contribution of Liability to OCD From Alleles Across the Frequency Spectrum

American Journal of Psychiatry
2022-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lambertus Klei; Manuel Mattheisen; Matthew W. Halvorsen; Abraham Reichenberg; Kathryn Roeder; Nancy L. Pedersen; Julia Boberg; Elles de Schipper; Cynthia M. Bulik et al.
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A SURVEY OF COPY NUMBER VARIANTS ASSOCIATED WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS IN A LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-ANCESTRY BIOBANK

2021 | Journal article
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Prevalence and phenotypic impact of rare potentially damaging variants in autism spectrum disorder

Molecular Autism
2021-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Silvia De Rubeis; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Maureen Mulhern; Xinyi Xu; Lambertus Klei; F. Kyle Satterstrom; Jack Fu; Michael E. Talkowski; Abraham Reichenberg et al.
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Genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Psychological Medicine
2021-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Katharina Bey; Julia Boberg; Christie Burton
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Genome-wide association study identifies new locus associated with OCD

2021-10-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Nora I. Strom; Dongmei Yu; Zachary F. Gerring; Matthew W. Halvorsen; Abdel Abdellaoui; Cristina Rodriguez-Fontenla; Julia M. Sealock; Tim Bigdeli; Jonathan R. I. Coleman; Behrang Mahjani et al.
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Systematic review and meta‐analysis identify significant relationships between clinical anxiety and lower urinary tract symptoms

Brain and Behavior
2021-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lotta Renström Koskela; Anita Batuure; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Magdalena Janecka; Christina M. Hultman; Abraham Reichenberg; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Olof Akre; Dorothy E. Grice
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OCD symptom severity and comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in a Swedish genetic epidemiological obsessive-compulsive disorder cohort

2021-07-01 | Other
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Abraham Reichenberg; Sven Sandin; Christina M. Hultman; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Dorothy E. Grice
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The genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder: alleles across the frequency spectrum contribute liability to OCD

2021-01-27 | Other
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lambertus Klei; Manuel Mattheisen; Matthew W. Halvorsen; Abraham Reichenberg; Kathryn Roeder; Nancy L. Pedersen; Julia Boberg; Elles de Schipper; Cynthia M. Bulik et al.
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Association of Anxiety Disorders and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Biological Psychiatry
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Mahjani, Behrang; Koskela, Lotta Renstrom; Batuure, Anita; Mahjani, Christina G.; Janecka, Magdalena; Hultman, Christina M.; Reichenberg, Abraham; Buxbaum, Joseph; Akre, Olof; Grice, Dorothy
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Genetic maternal effects contributes to the risk of Tourette’s disorder

2020-12-02 | Other
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lambertus Klei; Christina M. Hultman; Henrik Larsson; Sven Sandin; Bernie Devlin; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Dorothy E. Grice
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Prevalence and Phenotypic Impact of Rare Likely Pathogenic Variants in Autism Spectrum Disorder

2020-11-17 | Other
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Silvia De Rubeis; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Maureen Mulhern; Xinyi Xu; Lambertus Klei; F. Kyle Satterstrom; Jack Fu; Michael E. Talkowski; Abraham Reichenberg et al.
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How rare and common risk variation jointly affect liability for autism spectrum disorder

2020-10-31 | Other
Contributors: Lambertus Klei; Lora Lee McClain; Behrang Mahjani; Klea Panayidou; Silvia De Rubeis; Anna-Carin Säll Grahnat; Gun Karlsson; Yangyi Lu; Nadine Melhem; Xinyi Xu et al.
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Identifies Significant Relationships Between Anxiety Disorders and Daytime Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

2020-09-01 | Other
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lotta Renström Koskela; Anita Batuure; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Magdalena Janecka; Christina M. Hultman; Abraham Reichenberg; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Olof Akre; Dorothy E. Grice
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Relationships Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Daytime Urinary Symptoms in Children

2020-09-01 | Other
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lotta Renström Koskela; Christina Gustavsson Mahjani; Magdalena Janecka; Anita Batuure; Christina M Hultman; Abraham Reichenberg; Joseph D Buxbaum; Dorothy E Grice
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Maternal Effects as Causes of Risk for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Biological Psychiatry
2020-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Behrang Mahjani; Lambertus Klei; Christina M. Hultman; Henrik Larsson; Bernie Devlin; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Sven Sandin; Dorothy E. Grice
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Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

Cell
2020-01 | Journal article
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Cohort profile: Epidemiology and Genetics of Obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders in Sweden (EGOS).

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
2020-01-06 | Journal article
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Association of Genetic and Environmental Factors With Autism in a 5-Country Cohort

JAMA Psychiatry
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Bai, Dan; Yip, Benjamin Hon Kei; Windham, Gayle C.; Sourander, Andre; Francis, Richard; Yoffe, Rinat; Glasson, Emma; Mahjani, Behrang; Suominen, Auli; Leonard, Helen et al.
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GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND RISK OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

European Neuropsychopharmacology
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Mahjani, Behrang; Klei, Lambertus; Hultman, Christina; Larsson, Henrik; Devlin, Bernie; Buxbaum, Joseph; Sandin, Sven; Grice, Dorothy
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Meta-Analysis Identifies a Robust Association Between Anxiety Disorders and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS)

Neuropsychopharmacology
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Grice, Dorothy; Mahjani, Behrang; Koskela, Lotta Renstrom; Batuure, Anita; Mahjani, Christina; Janecka, Magdalena; Hultman, Christina M.; Reichenberg, Avi; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Akre, Olaf
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RECURRENT AND LARGE COPY NUMBER VARIATION IN OCD RISK: RESULTS FROM THE EGOS STUDY

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Grice, Dorothy E.; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Devlin, Bernie; De Rubeis, Silvia; Hultman, Christina M.; Klei, Lambertus; Mahjani, Behrang; Sandin, Sven; Mulhern, Maureen; Xu, Xinyi
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Computer Intensive Methods in Statistics

Chapman and Hall/CRC
2019-12-02 | Book
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Behrang Mahjani

Heritable Variation, With Little or No Maternal Effect, Accounts for Recurrence Risk to Autism Spectrum Disorder in Sweden

Biological Psychiatry
2018-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Benjamin Hon Kei Yip; Dan Bai; Behrang Mahjani; Lambertus Klei; Yudi Pawitan; Christina M. Hultman; Dorothy E. Grice; Kathryn Roeder; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Bernie Devlin et al.
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A Flexible Computational Framework Using R and Map-Reduce for Permutation Tests of Massive Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85017167606

Part of ISSN: 15455963
Contributors: Mahjani, B.; Toor, S.; Nettelblad, C.; Holmgren, S.
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Computational challenges in modeling maternal effects in psychiatric disorders.

2016 | Other
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Behrang Mahjani

Fitting linear mixed models using sparse matrix methods and Lanczos factorization

Statistics and computing
2016 | Journal article
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Behrang Mahjani

Global optimization algorithm PruneDIRECT as an R package.

2016 | Other
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Behrang Mahjani

Methods from Statistical Computing for Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits

2016 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Behrang Mahjani

QTL as a service: PruneDIRECT for multi-dimensional QTL scans in cloud settings

Bioinformatics
2016 | Journal article
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Behrang Mahjani

Software as a Service in analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci.

2016 | Other
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Behrang Mahjani

Hadoop-PruneDIRECT

2014 | Journal article
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Behrang Mahjani

Fast and accurate detection of multiple quantitative trait loci

Journal of Computational Biology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84883699495

Part of ISSN: 10665277
Contributors: Nettelblad, C.; Mahjani, B.; Holmgren, S.
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Using peak shape to improve efficient and effective detection of multiple QTL in known crossings

4th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics
2012 | Conference paper
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Behrang Mahjani

Exploring connectivity of random subgraphs of a graph

2010 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Behrang Mahjani

Exploring Connectivity of Random Subgraphs of a Graph: Connectivity of Random Subgraphs of Cartesian Products of K2, K3, and P3: a Survey of Uniformly Most Reliable Networks

2010 | Other
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Behrang Mahjani

Analyzing Two Simplified Coalescent Algorithms

2009 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Behrang Mahjani

Sequential Markov coalescent algorithms for population models with demographic structure

Theoretical Population Biology
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-67651042544

Part of ISSN: 00405809 10960325
Contributors: Eriksson, A.; Mahjani, B.; Mehlig, B.
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Review activity for Journal of autism and developmental disorders. (7)
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Review activity for Translational psychiatry. (2)