Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant

C Esslinger, H Walter, P Kirsch, S Erk, K Schnell… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a devastating, highly heritable brain disorder of unknown etiology.
Recently, the first common genetic variant associated on a genome-wide level with …

Genome‐Wide Findings in Schizophrenia and the Role of Gene–Environment Interplay

R Van Winkel, G Esquivel, G Kenis… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The recent advent of genome‐wide mass‐marker technology has resulted in renewed
optimism to unravel the genetic architecture of psychotic disorders. Genome‐wide …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting schizophrenia genetics by utilizing genetic overlap with brain morphology

D Van der Meer, AA Shadrin, K O'Connell, F Bettella… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Schizophrenia is a complex polygenic disorder with subtle, distributed
abnormalities in brain morphology. There are indications of shared genetic architecture …

Cognitive state and connectivity effects of the genome-wide significant psychosis variant in ZNF804A

C Esslinger, P Kirsch, L Haddad, D Mier, C Sauer… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Alterations of connectivity are central to the systems-level pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
One of the best-established genome-wide significant risk variants for this highly heritable …

A role for noncoding variation in schizophrenia

P Roussos, AC Mitchell, G Voloudakis, JF Fullard… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
A large portion of common variant loci associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia reside
within noncoding sequence of unknown function. Here, we demonstrate promoter and …

Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

M Fromer, P Roussos, SK Sieberts, JS Johnson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia-associated variants, yet how these variants
confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from …

Partitioning heritability analysis reveals a shared genetic basis of brain anatomy and schizophrenia

PH Lee, JT Baker, AJ Holmes, N Jahanshad, T Ge… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex genetic
etiology. Widespread cortical gray matter loss has been observed in patients and prodromal …

A transcriptome-wide association study implicates specific pre-and post-synaptic abnormalities in schizophrenia

LS Hall, CW Medway, O Pain… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is a complex highly heritable disorder. Genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) have identified multiple loci that influence the risk of developing schizophrenia …

Functional connectome-wide associations of schizophrenia polygenic risk

H Cao, H Zhou, TD Cannon - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable mental disorder characterized by functional
dysconnectivity across the brain. However, the relationships between polygenic risk factors …

Developmental and genetic regulation of the human cortex transcriptome illuminate schizophrenia pathogenesis

AE Jaffe, RE Straub, JH Shin, R Tao, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified 108 schizophrenia risk loci, but biological
mechanisms for individual loci are largely unknown. Using developmental, genetic and …