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An up-to-date list of Seth’s publications can be found at Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JxHtIgoAAAAJ&hl=en

Preprints

Jocelynn R. Pearl, Dani E. Bergey, Cory C. Funk, Bijoya Basu, Rediet Oshone, Paul Shannon, Leroy Hood, Nathan D. Price, Carlo Colantuoni, and Seth A. Ament. Genome-scale transcriptional regulatory network models of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/190959

Cory C Funk, Segun Jung, Matthew Richards, Alex Rodriguez, Paul Shannon, Rory Donovan, Ben Heavner, Kyle Chard, Yukai Xiao, Gustavo Glusman, Nilufer Erleskin-Taner, Todd Golde, Arthur Toga, Leroy Hood, John D Van Horn, Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster, Seth A. Ament, Ravi Madduri, Nathan D. Price. Atlas of Transcription Factor Binding Sites from ENCODE DNase Hypersensitivity Data Across 27 Tissue Types. https://doi.org/10.1101/252023

2018

Ament S. A.*, Pearl J. R.*, Bragg R.M., Skene P., Coffey S.R., Plaisier C.L., Wheeler V.C., MacDonald M.E., Baliga N.S., Rosinski J., Hood L.E., Carroll J.B., and Price N.D. (2018) Transcriptional regulatory networks underlying gene expression changes in Huntington’s disease. Mol. Systems Biol.14(3):e7435. http://msb.embopress.org/content/14/3/e7435.long

David C Glahn, Vishwajit L Nimgaonkar, Henriette Raventós, Javier Contreras, Andrew M McIntosh, Pippa A Thomson, Assen Jablensky, Nina S McCarthy, Nicholas B Blackburn, Juan Manuel Peralta, Emma EM Knowles, Samuel R Mathias, Seth A Ament, Francis J McMahon, Ruben C Gur, Maja Bucan, Joanne E Curran, Laura Almasy, Raquel E Gur, John Blangero. Rediscovering the Value of Families for Psychiatric Genetics Research. Molecular Psychiatry.Accepted.

2017

Bragg R.M., Coffey S.R., Weston R.M., Ament S.A., Cantle J.P., Minnig S., Funk C.C., Shuttleworth D.D., Woods E.L., Sullivan B.R., Jones L., Glickenhaus A., Anderson J.S., Anderson M.D., Dunnett S.B., Wheeler V.C., MacDonald M.E., Brooks S.P., Price N.D., and Carroll J.B. (2017) Motivational, proteostatic and transcriptional deficits precede synapse loss, gliosis and neurodegeneration in the B6.HttQ111/+model of Huntington’s disease. Scientific Reports. 7:41570.

Ament S.A.*, PearlJ.R.*, GrindelandA.*, St. Claire J., Earls J.C., Kovalenko M., Gillis T., Mysore J., Gusella J.F., Lee J.M., Kwak S., Howland D., Lee M., Baxter D., Scherler K., Wang K., Geman D., Carroll J.B., MacDonald M.E., Goodman N., Carlson G., Wheeler V.C., Price N.D., and Hood L.E. (2017) High resolution time-course mapping of early transcriptomic, molecular and cellular phenotypes in Huntington’s disease CAG knock-in mice across multiple genetic backgrounds. Human Mol Genet. 26(5):913-922. https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/26/5/913/3045004

Bruce H.A., Kochunov P., Paciga S.A., Hyde C.L., Chen X., Xie Z., Zhang B., Xi H.S., O’Donnell P., Whelan C., Schubert C.R., Bellon A., Ament S.A., Shukla D.K., Du X., Rowland L.M., O’Neill H., Hong L.E. (2017) Potassium channel gene associations with joint processing speed and white matter impairments in schizophrenia. Genes Brain Behav.Feb 11. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12372.

Sydney R. Coffey, Robert M. Bragg, Shawn Minnig, Seth A. Ament, Anne Glickenhaus, Daniel Shelnut, José M. Carrillo, Dominic D. Shuttleworth, Julie-Anne Rodier, Kimihiro Noguchi, C. Frank Bennett, Nathan D. Price, Holly B. Kordasiewicz, Jeffrey B. Carroll. Peripheral Httsilencing does not ameliorate central signs of disease in the B6.HttQ111/+mouse model of Huntington’s Disease. PLoS One. 12(4): e0175968. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175968

Meghann Ryan, Peter Kochunov, Laura M. Rowland, Braxton D. Mitchell, S. Andrea Wijtenburg, Els Fieremans, Jelle Veraart, Dmitry S. Novikov, Xiaoming Du, Bhim Adhikari, Feven Fisseha, Heather Bruce, Joshua Chiappelli, Hemalatha Sampath, Seth Ament, Jeffrey O’Connell, Alan R. Shuldiner, L. Elliot Hong. (2017) Lipid Metabolism, Abdominal Adiposity, and Cerebral Health in the Amish. Obesity.doi:10.1002/oby.21946

2015

Glusman G., Dhankani V., Robinson M., Farrah T., Mauldin D.E., Severson A., Stittrich A.B., Ament S.A., Roach J.C., Brunkow M.E., Bodian D.L., Vockley J.G., Shmulevich I., Niederhuber J.I., and Hood L. (2015) Identification of copy number variants in whole-genome data using Reference Coverage Profiles. Front Genet. 6:45.

Ament S.A., Szelinger S., Glusman G., Ashworth J., Hou L., Akula N., Shekhtman T., Badner J.A., Brunkow M.E., Mauldin D.E., Stittrich A.B., Rouleau K., Detera-Wadleigh S., Nurnberger J.I., Edenberg H.J., Gershon E.S., Schork N.J., The Bipolar Genome Study, Price N.D., Gelinas R., Hood L., Craig D.W., McMahon F.J., Kelsoe J.R., and Roach J.C. (2015) Rare variants in neuronal excitability genes influence risk for bipolar disorder. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.112(11):3576-3581.http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3576

Older

Ament S.A., Bullis R., Hanlon R.T., and Mensinger A. (1997) Righting response and escape response in Opsanus tauare temperature dependent. Biol Bull193:265-266.

Hanlon R.T., Ament S.A., and Gabr H. (1999) Behavioral aspects of sperm competition in cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis(Sepioidea: Cephalopoda). Marine Biol134:719-728.

Shashar N., Borst D.T., Ament S.A., Saidel W.M., Smolowitz R.M., and Hanlon R.T., (2001) Polarization reflecting iridophores in the arms of the squid Loligo pealeii.Biol Bull201:267-268.

Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium (2006) Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera.Nature443:931-49.

Kunieda T.*, Fujiyuki T.*, Kucharski R.*, Foret S.*, Ament S.A.*, Toth A.L.*, Ohashi K., Takeuchi H., Kamikouchi A., Kage E., Morioka M., Beye M., Kubo T., Robinson G.E., and Maleszka R. (2006) Carbohydrate metabolism genes and pathways in insects: insights from the honey bee genome. Insect Mol Biol 15:563-576.

Ament S.A., Corona M., Pollock H.S., and Robinson G.E. (2008) Insulin signaling is involved in the regulation of worker division of labor in honey bee colonies. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,105:4226-4231.

Brockmann A. AnnangudiS.P., RichmondT.A., AmentS.A., XieF., SoutheyB.R., Rodriguez-ZasS.R., SweedlerJ.V., and RobinsonG.E. (2009) Quantitative peptidomics reveal brain peptide signatures of behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 106:2383-2388.

Ament S.A., Wang Y., and Robinson G.E. (2010) Nutritional regulation of worker division labor in honey bee colonies: a systems perspective. Wiley Interdiscipl Rev: Systems Biol Med. 2(5):566-576.

Ament S.A., Velarde R.A., Kolodkin M., Moyse D., and Robinson G.E. (2011) Neuropeptide Y-like signaling and nutritionally-mediated gene expression and behavior in the honey bee. Insect Mol Biol.20(3):335-345.

Ament S.A., Chan Q.W., Wheeler M.W., Nixon S.E., Johnson S.P., Rodriguez-Zas S.R., Foster L.J., and Robinson G.E. (2011) Mechanisms of stable lipid loss in a social insect. J Exp Biol. 214:3808-3821.

Chandrasekaran S., Ament S.A., Eddy J.A., Rodriguez-Zas S.R., Schatz B.R., Price N.D., and Robinson G.E. (2011) Behavior-specific changes in transcriptional modules lead to distinct and predictable neurogenomic states. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 108:18020-18025.

Ament S.A.*, Wang Y.*, Chen C.-C., Blatti C., Hong F., Negre N., White K.P., Rodriguez-Zas S.L., Mizzen C.A., Sinha S., Zhong S., and Robinson G.E. (2012) The transcription factor ultraspiracle influences honey bee social behavior and behavior-related gene expression. PLoS Genet. 8(3):e1002596.

Ament S.A.*, Blatti C.*, Alaux C.*, Wheeler M.W., Toth A.L., Le Conte Y., Hunt G.J., Guzmán-Novoa E., DeGrandi-Hoffman G., Uribe-Rubio J.L., Amdam G.V., Page R.E., Rodriguez-Zas S.L, Robinson G.E. and Sinha S.(2012) New meta-analysis tools reveal common transcriptional regulatory basis for multiple determinants of behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 109:E1801-E1810.

Greenberg J., Xia J., Zhou X., Thatcher S.R., Ament S.A., Newman T.C., Green P.J., Zhang W., Robinson G.E., and Ben-Shahar Y. (2012) Behavioral plasticity in honey bees is associated with differences in brain microRNA transcriptome. Genes Brain Behav. 11(6):660-670.

Ko Y.*, Ament S.A.*, Caballero J., Earls J.C., Hood L., Price N.D. (2013) Cell-type specific genes show striking and distinct patterns of spatial expression in the mouse brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110(8):3095-3100.

Wheeler M.M., Ament S.A., Rodriguez-Zas S.M., and Robinson G.E. (2013) Brain gene expression changes elicited by peripheral vitellogeninknockdown in the honey bee. Insect Mol Biol. 22:562-573.

Brownstein C.A., et al. (2014) An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results: The CLARITY Challenge. Genome Biol.15(3):R53.

Wheeler M.M., Ament S.A., Rodriguez-Zas S.M., Southey B., and Robinson G.E. (2015) Diet and endocrine effects on behavioral maturation-related gene expression in the pars intercerebralis of the honey bee brain. J Exp Biol. 218:4005-4014.

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