Publications: Dr Robert Keers
Roberts S, Keers R, Breen G, Coleman JRI, Jöhren P, Kepa A, Lester KJ, Margraf J et al.(2019).
DNA methylation of FKBP5 and response to exposure-based psychological therapy. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
vol. 180,
(2)
150-158.
Ullrich S, Keers R, Shaw J, Doyle M, Coid JW(2018).
Acting on delusions: the role of negative affect in the pathway towards serious violence. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
vol. 29,
(5)
691-704.
KEERS R(2018).
The Impact of Treatment Delivery Format on Response to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Pre-Adolescent Children with Anxiety Disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Booth C, Songco A, Parsons S, Heathcote L, Vincent J, Keers R, Fox E(2017).
The CogBIAS longitudinal study protocol: cognitive and genetic factors influencing psychological functioning in adolescence. BMC Psychol
vol. 5,
(1)
41-41.
PLUESS M, Keers R(2017).
Childhood Quality Influences Genetic Sensitivity to Environmental Influences across Adulthood: A Life-Course Gene-Environment Interaction Study. Development and Psychopathology
Denis D, Eley TC, Rijsdijk F, Zavos HMS, Keers R, Espie CA, Luik AI, Badini I et al.(2017).
Sleep Treatment Outcome Predictors (STOP) Pilot Study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial examining predictors of change of insomnia symptoms and associated traits following cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia in an unselected sample. BMJ Open
vol. 7,
(11)
e017177-e017177.
Assary E, Vincent J, Keers R, PLUESS M(2017).
Gene-Environment Interaction and Psychiatric Disorders: Review and Future Directions. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
Coleman J, Lester K, Keers R, Roberts S, Lee SH, de Jong S, Teismann T, Wannemueller A et al. (2017).
COMBINING GENETIC AND GENE EXPRESSION METHODS TO IDENTIFY BIOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF RESPONSE TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS. EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY.
vol. 27,
S159-S159.
Eley T, Keers R, Coleman J, Lester K, Thastum M, Schneider S, Heiervang E, Meiser-Stedman R et al. (2017).
POLYGENIC SCORES FOR DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS PREDICT RESPONSE TO CBT IN CHILD ANXIETY. EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY.
vol. 27,
S502-S503.
Roberts S, Wong CCY, Breen G, Coleman JRI, De Jong S, Jöhren P, Keers R, Curtis C et al.(2017).
Genome-wide expression and response to exposure-based psychological therapy for anxiety disorders. Transl Psychiatry
vol. 7,
(8)
e1219-e1219.
Coleman JRI, Lester KJ, Keers R, Munafò MR, Breen G, Eley TC(2017).
Genome-wide association study of facial emotion recognition in children and association with polygenic risk for mental health disorders. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
vol. 174,
(7)
701-711.
Eley T, Keers R, Coleman J, Lester K, Roberts S, Breen G, Thastum M, Bogels S et al. (2016).
Therapygenetics: using polygenic risk scores for differential susceptibility to predict response to psychological therapy in child anxiety disorders. BEHAVIOR GENETICS.
vol. 46,
780-781.
Coleman JRI, Lester KJ, Keers R, Roberts S, Curtis C, Arendt K, Bögels S, Cooper P et al.(2016).
Genome-wide association study of response to cognitive-behavioural therapy in children with anxiety disorders. Br J Psychiatry
vol. 209,
(3)
236-243.
Coleman JRI, Lester KJ, Roberts S, Keers R, Lee SH, De Jong S, Gaspar H, Teismann T et al.(2016).
Separate and combined effects of genetic variants and pre-treatment whole blood gene expression on response to exposure-based cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry1-34.
Coid JW, Ullrich S, Bebbington P, Fazel S, Keers R(2016).
Paranoid Ideation and Violence: Meta-analysis of Individual Subject Data of 7 Population Surveys. Schizophr Bull
vol. 42,
(4)
907-915.
Lester KJ, Coleman JRI, Roberts S, Keers R, Breen G, Bögels S, Creswell C, Hudson JL et al.(2016).
Genetic variation in the endocannabinoid system and response to Cognitive Behavior Therapy for child anxiety disorders. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
González RA, Kallis C, Ullrich S, Barnicot K, Keers R, Coid JW(2016).
Childhood maltreatment and violence: mediation through psychiatric morbidity. Child Abuse Negl
vol. 52,
70-84.
Lester KJ, Roberts S, Keers R, Coleman JRI, Breen G, Wong CCY, Xu X, Arendt K et al.(2016).
Non-replication of the association between 5HTTLPR and response to psychological therapy for child anxiety disorders. Br J Psychiatry
vol. 208,
(2)
182-188.
Keers R, Coleman JRI, Lester KJ, Roberts S, Breen G, Thastum M, Bögels S, Schneider S et al.(2016).
A Genome-Wide Test of the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis Reveals a Genetic Predictor of Differential Response to Psychological Treatments for Child Anxiety Disorders. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
vol. 85,
(3)
146-158.
Roberts S, Keers R, Lester KJ, Coleman JRI, Breen G, Arendt K, Blatter-Meunier J, Cooper P et al.(2015).
HPA AXIS RELATED GENES AND RESPONSE TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES: GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS. Depress Anxiety
vol. 32,
(12)
861-870.
Hudson JL, Keers R, Roberts S, Coleman JRI, Breen G, Arendt K, Bögels S, Cooper P et al.(2015).
Clinical Predictors of Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: The Genes for Treatment (GxT) Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
vol. 54,
(6)
454-463.
Eley TC, Lester KJ, Roberts S, Coleman RI, Keers R, Breen G, Wong CY, Hudson JL (2014).
Genetic predictors of psychotherapy for mood and anxiety disorders. EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY.
vol. 24,
S141-S142.
Keers R(2014).
Response to Pinta. Am J Psychiatry
vol. 171,
(7)
Malki K, Keers R, Tosto MG, Lourdusamy A, Carboni L, Domenici E, Uher R, McGuffin P et al.(2014).
The endogenous and reactive depression subtypes revisited: integrative animal and human studies implicate multiple distinct molecular mechanisms underlying major depressive disorder. BMC Med
vol. 12,
Keers R, Ullrich S, Destavola BL, Coid JW(2014).
Association of violence with emergence of persecutory delusions in untreated schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry
vol. 171,
(3)
332-339.
Hodgson K, Uher R, Crawford AA, Lewis G, O'Donovan MC, Keers R, Dernovsek MZ, Mors O et al.(2014).
Genetic predictors of antidepressant side effects: a grouped candidate gene approach in the Genome-Based Therapeutic Drugs for Depression (GENDEP) study. J Psychopharmacol
vol. 28,
(2)
142-150.
Ullrich S, Keers R, Coid JW(2013).
Delusions, Anger, and Serious Violence: New Findings From the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study. Schizophr Bull
vol. n/a,
Article n/a,
Power RA, Wingenbach T, Cohen-Woods S, Uher R, Ng MY, Butler AW, Ising M, Craddock N et al.(2013).
Estimating the heritability of reporting stressful life events captured by common genetic variants. Psychol Med
vol. 43,
(9)
1965-1971.
Coid JW, Ullrich S, Keers R, Bebbington P, Destavola BL, Kallis C, Yang M, Reiss D et al.(2013).
Gang membership, violence, and psychiatric morbidity. Am J Psychiatry
vol. 170,
(9)
985-993.
Power RA, Lecky-Thompson L, Fisher HL, Cohen-Woods S, Hosang GM, Uher R, Powell-Smith G, Keers R et al.(2013).
The interaction between child maltreatment, adult stressful life events and the 5-HTTLPR in major depression. J Psychiatr Res
vol. 47,
(8)
1032-1035.
Coid JW, Ullrich S, Kallis C, Keers R, Barker D, Cowden F, Stamps R(2013).
The relationship between delusions and violence: findings from the East London first episode psychosis study. JAMA Psychiatry
vol. 70,
(5)
465-471.
Malki K, Lourdusamy A, Binder E, Payá-Cano J, Sluyter F, Craig I, Keers R, McGuffin P et al.(2012).
Antidepressant-dependent mRNA changes in mouse associated with hippocampal neurogenesis in a mouse model of depression. Pharmacogenet Genomics
vol. 22,
(11)
765-776.
Power RA, Keers R, Ng MY, Butler AW, Uher R, Cohen-Woods S, Ising M, Craddock N et al.(2012).
Dissecting the genetic heterogeneity of depression through age at onset. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
vol. 159B,
(7)
859-868.
Malki K, Campbell J, Davies M, Keers R, Uher R, Ward M, Paya-Cano J, Aitchinson KJ et al.(2012).
Pharmacoproteomic investigation into antidepressant response in two mouse inbred strains. Proteomics
vol. 12,
(14)
2355-2365.
Zavos HMS, Wong CCY, Barclay NL, Keers R, Mill J, Rijsdijk FV, Gregory AM, Eley TC(2012).
Anxiety sensitivity in adolescence and young adulthood: the role of stressful life events, 5HTTLPR and their interaction. Depress Anxiety
vol. 29,
(5)
400-408.
Keers R(2012).
Will gene-environment interactions explain differential antidepressant response?. Per Med
vol. 9,
(3)
319-322.
Keers R, Uher R(2012).
Gene-environment interaction in major depression and antidepressant treatment response. Curr Psychiatry Rep
vol. 14,
(2)
129-137.
Keers R, Pedroso I, Breen G, Aitchison KJ, Nolan PM, Cichon S, Nöthen MM, Rietschel M et al.(2012).
Reduced anxiety and depression-like behaviours in the circadian period mutant mouse afterhours. PLoS One
vol. 7,
(6)
Fisher HL, Cohen-Woods S, Hosang GM, Uher R, Powell-Smith G, Keers R, Tropeano M, Korszun A et al.(2012).
Stressful life events and the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT) in recurrent clinical depression. J Affect Disord
vol. 136,
(1-2)
189-193.
Keers R, Bonvicini C, Scassellati C, Uher R, Placentino A, Giovannini C, Rietschel M, Henigsberg N et al.(2011).
Variation in GNB3 predicts response and adverse reactions to antidepressants. J Psychopharmacol
vol. 25,
(7)
867-874.
Uher R, Mors O, Hauser J, Rietschel M, Maier W, Kozel D, Henigsberg N, Souery D et al.(2011).
Changes in body weight during pharmacological treatment of depression. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol
vol. 14,
(3)
367-375.
Keers R, Uher R, Huezo-Diaz P, Smith R, Jaffee S, Rietschel M, Henigsberg N, Kozel D et al.(2011).
Interaction between serotonin transporter gene variants and life events predicts response to antidepressants in the GENDEP project. Pharmacogenomics J
vol. 11,
(2)
138-145.
Amstadter AB, Balachandar V, Bergenb SE, Ceulemans S, Christensen JH, Cole J, Dagdan E, De Luca V et al.(2011).
Erratum: Selected summaries from the XVII World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, San Diego, California, USA, 4-8 November 2009 (Psychiatric Genetics (2010) 20:5 (229)). Psychiatric Genetics
vol. 21,
(1)
Keers R, Aitchison KJ(2011).
Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response. Expert Rev Neurother
vol. 11,
(1)
101-125.
Keers R, Uher R, Gupta B, Rietschel M, Schulze TG, Hauser J, Skibinska M, Henigsberg N et al.(2010).
Stressful life events, cognitive symptoms of depression and response to antidepressants in GENDEP. J Affect Disord
vol. 127,
(1-3)
337-342.
Amstadter AB, Balachandar V, Bergen SE, Ceulemans S, Christensen JH, Cole J, Dagdan E, De Luca V et al.(2010).
Selected summaries from the XVII World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, San Diego, California, USA, 4-8 November 2009. Psychiatr Genet
vol. 20,
(5)
229-268.
Hosang GM, Uher R, Keers R, Cohen-Woods S, Craig I, Korszun A, Perry J, Tozzi F et al.(2010).
Stressful life events and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene in bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord
vol. 125,
(1-3)
345-349.
Amstadter AB, Balachandar V, Bergen SE, Ceulemans S, Christensen JH, Cole J, de Luca V, Ducci F et al.(2010).
Selected summaries from the XVII world congress of psychiatric genetics, San Diego, California, USA, 4-8 November 2009. Psychiatric Genetics
Keers R, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Hauser J, Maier W, Rietschel M, Mors O, McGuffin P, Farmer AE et al. (2010).
CYP2D6 genotype predicts antidepressant dose in the GENDEP project. EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY.
vol. 20,
S172-S173.
Keers R, Farmer AE, Aitchison KJ(2010).
Further evidence is required to confirm association between CACNA1C gene variants and bipolar affective disorder Reply. PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
vol. 40,
(4)
702-704.
Keers R, Farmer AE, Aitchison KJ(2010).
The authors reply. Psychological Medicine
vol. 40,
(4)
702-704.
Keers R, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Hauser J, Maier W, Rietschel M, Mors O, McGuffin P, Farmer AE et al. (2010).
CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 genotypes predict antidepressant dose in the GENDEP project. EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY.
vol. 20,
S70-S71.
Keers R, Aitchison KJ(2010).
Gender differences in antidepressant drug response. Int Rev Psychiatry
vol. 22,
(5)
485-500.
Keers R, Farmer AE, Aitchison KJ(2009).
Extracting a needle from a haystack: reanalysis of whole genome data reveals a readily translatable finding. Psychol Med
vol. 39,
(8)
1231-1235.