About
Research themes
The main theme of my research is human genetics via bioinformatic analysis, focusing mainly on population and medical genetics.
My research centers on:
- Genetics of complex diseases and population genetics.
- Genomic and epigenomic large scale data analysis.
- Analysis of common and rare genomic variants implicated in disease.
- Identification of population structure and stratification.
- Archaeogenetics
Background
I studied Molecular Biology and Genetics at Democritus University of Thrace.
I did my PhD primarily at Democritus University and at Purdue University, working in the Laboratory of Human Genome Variation under the supervision of Prof. Peristera Paschou and Prof. Petros Drineas.
Code and data
Genomics tutorial series
Candidate gene association study (in greek)
Written works
Publications
2019
Petros Drineas*, Fotis Tsetsos*, Anna Plantinga, Iosif Lazaridis, Evangelia Yannaki, Anna Razou, Katerina Kanaki, Manolis Michalodimitrakis, Francisco Perez-Jimenez, Giustina DeSilvestro, Maria C Renda, John A Stamatoyannopoulos, Kenneth K Kidd, Brian L Browning, Peristera Paschou, and George Stamatoyannopoulos. “Genetic history of the population of Crete”. Annals of Human Genetics (2019). doi:10.1111/ahg.12328.
Mary S Mufford, Joshua Cheung, Neda Jahanshad, Linda Ding, Celia van der Merwe, Nynke Groenewold, Nastassja Koen, Emile R Chimusa, Shareefa Dalvie, Raj Ramesar, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium - Tourette Syndrome Working Group, James A Knowles, Christine Lochner, Derrek P Hibar, Peristera Paschou, Odile A van den Heuvel, Sarah E Medland, Jeremiah M Scharf, Carol A Mathews, Paul M Thompson, and Dan J Stein. “Concordance of genetic variation that increases risk for tourette syndrome and that influences its underlying neurocircuitry”. Translational Psychiatry 9.1 (Dec. 2019), p. 120. doi:10.1038/s41398-019-0452-3.
Dongmei Yu*, Jae Hoon Sul*, Fotis Tsetsos*, Muhammad S. Nawaz, Alden Y. Huang, Ivette Zelaya, Cornelia Illmann, Lisa Osiecki, Sabrina M. Darrow, Matthew E. Hirschtritt, Erica Greenberg, Kirsten R. Muller-Vahl, Manfred Stuhrmann, Yves Dion, Guy Rouleau, Harald Aschauer, Mara Stamenkovic, Monika Schlögelhofer, Paul Sandor, Cathy L. Barr, Marco Grados, Harvey S. Singer, Markus M. Nöthen, Johannes Hebebrand, Anke Hinney, Robert A. King, Thomas V. Fernandez, Csaba Barta, Zsanett Tarnok, Peter Nagy, Christel Depienne, Yulia Worbe, Andreas Hartmann, Cathy L. Budman, Renata Rizzo, Gholson J. Lyon, William M. McMahon, James R. Batterson, Danielle C. Cath, Irene A. Malaty, Michael S. Okun, Cheston Berlin, Douglas W. Woods, Paul C. Lee, Joseph Jankovic, Mary M. Robertson, Donald L. Gilbert, Lawrence W. Brown, Barbara J. Coffey, Andrea Dietrich, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Samuel Kuperman, Samuel H. Zinner, Pétur Luðvigsson, Evald Sæmundsen, Ólafur Thorarensen, Gil Atzmon, Nir Barzilai, Michael Wagner, Rainald Moessner, Roel Ophoff, Carlos N. Pato, Michele T. Pato, James A. Knowles, Joshua L. Roffman, Jordan W. Smoller, Randy L. Buckner, A. Jeremy Willsey, Jay A. Tischfield, Gary A. Heiman, Hreinn Stefansson, Kári Stefansson, Danielle Posthuma, Nancy J. Cox, David L. Pauls, Nelson B. Freimer, Benjamin M. Neale, Lea K. Davis, Peristera Paschou, Giovanni Coppola, Carol A. Mathews, Jeremiah M. Scharf, and Tourette Association of America International Consortium for Genetics, the Gilles de la Tourette GWAS Replication Initiative, the Tourette International Collaborative Genetics Study, and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Tourette Syndrome Working Group. “Interrogating the Genetic Determinants of Tourette’s Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders Through Genome-Wide Association Studies”. American Journal of Psychiatry 176.3 (2019), pp. 217–227. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18070857.
2018
Daniel S. Tylee, Jiayin Sun, Jonathan L. Hess, Muhammad A. Tahir, Esha Sharma, Rainer Malik, Bradford B. Worrall, Andrew J. Levine, Jeremy J. Martinson, Sergey Nejentsev, Doug Speed, Annegret Fischer, Eric Mick, Brian R. Walker, Andrew Crawford, Struan F. A. Grant, Constantin Polychronakos, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Patrick M. A. Sleiman, Hakon Hakonarson, Eva Ellinghaus, James T. Elder, Lam C. Tsoi, Richard C. Trembath, Jonathan N. Barker, Andre Franke, Abbas Dehghan, Stephen V. Faraone, Stephen J. Glatt, METASTROKE Consortium of the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, Netherlands Twin Registry, neuroCHARGE Working Group, Obsessive Compulsive and Tourette Syndrome Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Stephen V Faraone, and Stephen J Glatt. “Genetic correlations among psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes based on genome-wide association data”. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 177.7 (Oct. 2018), pp. 641–657. doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.32652.
The Brainstorm Consortium. “Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain”. Science 360.6395 (2018). doi:10.1126/science.aap8757.
Xanthippi Tsekmekidou, Fotis Tsetsos, Marianthi Georgitsi, Athanassios Roumeliotis, Nikolaos Papanas, Peristera Paschou, John Yovos, and Kalliopi Kotsa. ‘‘[Assessment of association of ALOX5 and ALOX5AP genes variants in elderly Greek population with type 2 diabetes mellitus]”.Hellenic Diabetological Chronicles31.1 (2018), pp. 32–39.
Xanthippi Tsekmekidou, Kalliopi Kotsa, Fotis Tsetsos, Athanassios Didaggelos, Marianthi Georgitsi, Athanassios Roumeliotis, Stylianos Panagoutsos, Elias Thodis, Nikolaos Papanas, Dimitrios Papazoglou, Ploumis Pasadakis, Efstratios Maltezos, Peristera Paschou, and John Yovos. “ALOX variants in the context of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Greek population”.Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research(2018).doi:10.1177/1479164118756241.
2017
Athanasios K. Roumeliotis, Stefanos K. Roumeliotis, Stylianos A. Panagoutsos, Fotis Tsetsos, Marianthi Georgitsi, Vangelis Manolopoulos, Peristera Paschou, and Ploumis S. Passadakis. “Association of ALOX12 gene polymorphism with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in diabetic nephropathy”. International Urology and Nephrology (2017). doi:10.1007/s11255-017-1755-z.
Alden Y Huang, Dongmei Yu, Lea K Davis, Jae Hoon Sul, Fotis Tsetsos, Vasily Ramensky, Ivette Zelaya, Eliana Marisa Ramos, Lisa Osiecki, Jason A Chen, Lauren M McGrath, Cornelia Illmann, Paul Sandor, Cathy L Barr, Marco Grados, Harvey S Singer, Markus M Nöthen, Johannes Hebebrand, Robert A King, Yves Dion, Guy Rouleau, Cathy L Budman, Christel Depienne, Yulia Worbe, Andreas Hartmann, Kirsten R Müller-Vahl, Manfred Stuhrmann, Harald Aschauer, Mara Stamenkovic, Monika Schloegelhofer, Anastasios Konstantinidis, Gholson J Lyon, William M McMahon, Csaba Barta, Zsanett Tarnok, Peter Nagy, James R Batterson, Renata Rizzo, Danielle C Cath, Tomasz Wolanczyk, Cheston Berlin, Irene A Malaty, Michael S Okun, Douglas W Woods, Elliott Rees, Carlos N Pato, Michele T Pato, James A Knowles, Danielle Posthuma, David L Pauls, Nancy J Cox, Benjamin M Neale, Nelson B Freimer, Peristera Paschou, Carol A Mathews, Jeremiah M Scharf, Giovanni Coppola, Ruth D Bruun, Sylvain Chouinard, Sabrina Darrow, Erica Greenberg, Matthew E Hirschtritt, Roger Kurlan, James F Leckman, Mary M Robertson, and Jan Smit. “Rare Copy Number Variants in NRXN1 and CNTN6 Increase Risk for Tourette Syndrome”. Neuron 94.6, 1101–1111.e7. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.010.
George Stamatoyannopoulos, Arita Bose, Athanasios Teodosiadis, Fotis Tsetsos, Anna Plantinga, Nikoletta Psatha, Nikolaos Zogas, Evangelia Yannaki, Pierre Zalloua, Kenneth Kidd, Brian Browning, John Stamatoyannopoulos, Peristera Paschou, and Petros Drineas. “Genetics of the Peloponnesean populations and the theory of extinction of the medieval Peloponnesean Greeks”. European Journal of Human Genetics 25.5, pp. 637–645. doi:10.1038/ejhg.2017.18
2016
Fotis Tsetsos, Shanmukha Sampath Padmanabhuni, John Alexander, Iordanis Karagiannidis, Margaritis Tsifintaris, Apostolia Topaloudi, Dimitrios Mantzaris, Marianthi Georgitsi, Petros Drineas, and Peristera Paschou. “Meta-analysis of Tourette Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder provides support for a shared genetic basis”. Frontiers in Neuroscience 10.340. doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00340.
Shanmukha Sampath Padmanabhuni, Rayan Houssari, Ann-Louise Esserlind, Jes Olesen, Thomas Werge, Thomas Hansen, Birgitte Berterlsen, Fotis Tsetsos, Peristera Paschou, and Zeynep Tumer. “Investigation of SNP rs2060546 immediately upstream to NTN4 in a Danish Gilles de la Tourette syndrome cohort”. Frontiers in Neuroscience 10, p. 531. doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00531.
John Alexander, Hera Potamianou, Jinchuan Xing, Li Deng, Iordanis Karagiannidis, Fotis Tsetsos, Petros Drineas, Tárnok Zsanett, Renata Rizzo, Tomasz Wolanczyk, Luca Farkas, Peter Nagy, Urszula Szymanska, Christos Androutsos, Vaia Tsironi, Anastasia Koumoula, Csaba Barta, Paul Sandor, Cathy Barr, Jay Tischfield, Peristera Paschou, Gary Heiman, and Marianthi Georgitsi. “Targeted re-sequencing approach of candidate genes implicates rare potentially functional variants in Tourette Syndrome etiology”. Frontiers in Neuroscience 10, p. 428. doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00428.
Iordanis Karagiannidis*, Fotis Tsetsos*, Shanmukha Sampath Padmanabhuni, John Alexander, Marianthi Georgitsi, and Peristera Paschou. “The Genetics of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: a Common Aetiological Basis with Comorbid Disorders?” Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, pp. 1–14. doi:10.1007/s40473-016-0088-z.
Gwyneth Zai, Bonnie Alberry, Janine Arloth, Zsófia Bánlaki, Cristina Bares, Erik Boot, Caroline Camilo, Kartikay Chadha, Qi Chen, Christopher B Cole, Katherine T Cost, Megan Crow, Ibene Ekpor, Sascha B Fischer, Laura Flatau, Sarah Gagliano, Umut Kirli, Prachi Kukshal, Viviane Labrie, Maren Lang, Tristram A Lett, Elisabetta Maffioletti, Robert Maier, Marina Mihaljevic, Kirti Mittal, Eric T Monson, Niamh L O’Brien, Søren D Østergaard, Ellen Ovenden, Sejal Patel, Roseann E Peterson, Jennie G Pouget, Diego L Rovaris, Lauren Seaman, Bhagya Shankarappa, Fotis Tsetsos, Andrea Vereczkei, Chenyao Wang, Khethelo Xulu, Ryan K C Yuen, Jingjing Zhao, Clement C Zai, and James L Kennedy. “Rapporteur summaries of plenary, symposia, and oral sessions from the XXIIIrd World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Meeting in Toronto, Canada, 16-20 October 2015.” Psychiatric Genetics. doi:10.1097/YPG.00000000000001.
2014
Peristera Paschou, Petros Drineas, Evangelia Yannaki, Anna Razou, Katerina Kanaki, Fotis Tsetsos, Shanmukha Sampath Padmanabhuni, Manolis Michalodimitrakis, Maria C. Renda, Sonja Pavlovic, Achilles Anagnostopoulos, John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Kenneth K. Kidd, and George Stamatoyannopoulos. “Maritime route of colonization of Europe”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.25, pp. 9211–9216. doi:10.1073/pnas.1320811111.
Peristera Paschou, Dongmei Yu, Gloria Gerber, Patrick Evans, Fotis Tsetsos, Lea K. Davis, Iordanis Karagiannidis, Jonathan Chaponis, Eric Gamazon, Kirsten Mueller-Vahl, Manfred Stuhrmann, Monika Schloegelhofer, Mara Stamenkovic, Johannes Hebebrand, Markus Noethen, Peter Nagy, Csaba Barta, Zsanett Tarnok, Renata Rizzo, Christel Depienne, Yulia Worbe, Andreas Hartmann, Danielle C. Cath, Cathy L. Budman, Paul Sandor, Cathy Barr, Thomas Wolanczyk, Harvey Singer, I-Ching Chou, Marco Grados, Danielle Posthuma, Guy A. Rouleau, Harald Aschauer, Nelson B. Freimer, David L. Pauls, Nancy J. Cox, Carol A. Mathews, and Jeremiah M. Scharf. “Genetic association signal near NTN4 in Tourette syndrome”. Annals of Neurology 76.2, pp. 310–315. doi:10.1002/ana.24215.
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