Mahon, Pamela Belmonte, Ph.D.

Instructor

Main Office Address

Meyer 4-151
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-7419

Phone: 410-955-1382
Fax: 410-502-0065

E-mail: pbelmon2@jhmi.edu

Education

Professional Interests

My research is on the genetics of psychiatric disorders, particularly mood disorders.  Areas of interest include incorporating clinical features into genetic studies of psychiatric disorders, examination of biological pathways, and neuroimaging genetics.

Selected Publications

Mahon PB, Payne JL, MacKinnon DF, Mondimore FM, Goes FS, Schweizer B, Jancic D; NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium; BiGS Consortium, Coryell WH, Holmans PA, Shi J, Knowles JA, Scheftner WA, Weissman MM, Levinson DF, DePaulo JR Jr, Zandi PP, Potash JB.  Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms. Am J Psychiatry. 2009;166(11):1229-37. 

Smith EN, Bloss CS, Badner JA, Barrett T, Belmonte PL, Berrettini W, Byerley W, Coryell W, Craig D, Edenberg HJ, Eskin E, Foroud T, Gershon E, Greenwood TA, Hipolito M, Koller DL, Lawson WB, Liu C, Lohoff F, McInnis MG, McMahon FJ, Mirel DB, Murray SS, Nievergelt C, Nurnberger J, Nwulia EA, Paschall J, Potash JB, Rice J, Schulze TG, Scheftner W, Panganiban C, Zaitlen N, Zandi PP, Zöllner S, Schork NJ, Kelsoe JR. Genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder in European American and African American individuals. Mol Psychiatry. 2009 ;14(8):755-63.

 Zandi PP*, Belmonte PL*, Willour VL, Goes FS, Badner JA, Simpson SG, Gershon ES, McMahon FJ, DePaulo JR Jr, Potash JB; Bipolar Disorder Phenome Group; National Institute of Mental Health Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium.  Association study of Wnt signaling pathway genes in bipolar disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008;65(7):785-93. *Joint first authors

Goes FS, Willour VL, Zandi PP, Belmonte PL, Mackinnon DF, Mondimore FM, Schweizer B, Depaulo JR Jr, Gershon ES, McMahon FJ, Potash JB; National Institute of Mental Health Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium.  Sex-specific association of the reelin gene with bipolar disorder. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2009 18;153B(2):549-553. 

 Willour VL, Chen H, Toolan J, Belmonte P, Cutler DJ, Goes FS, Zandi PP, Lee RS, MacKinnon DF, Mondimore FM, Schweizer B; Bipolar Disorder Phenome Group; NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium, DePaulo JR Jr, Gershon ES, McMahon FJ, Potash JB. Family-based association of FKBP5 in bipolar disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2009;14(3):261-8.