Hypothesis-driven candidate genes for schizophrenia compared to genome-wide association results

AL Collins, Y Kim, P Sklar, MC O'Donovan… - Psychological …, 2012 - cambridge.org
BackgroundCandidate gene studies have been a key approach to the genetics of
schizophrenia (SCZ). However, the results of these studies are confusing and no genes …

Polygenic overlap between schizophrenia risk and antipsychotic response: a genomic medicine approach

DM Ruderfer, AW Charney, B Readhead… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Therapeutic treatments for schizophrenia do not alleviate symptoms for all
patients and efficacy is limited by common, often severe, side-effects. Genetic studies of …

Joint contributions of rare copy number variants and common SNPs to risk for schizophrenia

SE Bergen, A Ploner, D Howrigan… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Both rare copy number variants (CNVs) and common single-nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) contribute to liability to schizophrenia, but their etiological …

Increased schizophrenia family history burden and reduced premorbid IQ in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a Swedish National Register and Genomic Study

K Kowalec, Y Lu, A Sariaslan, J Song, A Ploner… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
A high proportion of those with schizophrenia experience treatment non-response, placing
them at higher risk for mortality and suicide attempts, compared to treatment responders …

De novo mutations from sporadic schizophrenia cases highlight important signaling genes in an independent sample

TM Kranz, S Harroch, O Manor, P Lichtenberg… - Schizophrenia …, 2015 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a debilitating syndrome with high heritability. Genomic studies reveal more
than a hundred genetic variants, largely nonspecific and of small effect size, and not …

The use of polygenic risk scores to identify phenotypes associated with genetic risk of schizophrenia: Systematic review

S Mistry, JR Harrison, DJ Smith, V Escott-Price… - Schizophrenia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Studying the phenotypic manifestations of increased genetic liability for schizophrenia can
increase our understanding of this disorder. Specifically, information from alleles identified in …

[PDF][PDF] Improved detection of common variants associated with schizophrenia by leveraging pleiotropy with cardiovascular-disease risk factors

OA Andreassen, S Djurovic, WK Thompson… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Several lines of evidence suggest that genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have the
potential to explain more of the" missing heritability" of common complex phenotypes …

Thinking about schizophrenia in an era of genomic medicine

DR Weinberger - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Genetic discoveries about human brain development and neuropsychiatric syndromes have
changed the landscape of psychiatric research. The genotyping of hundreds of thousands of …

Genome‐wide association study reveals greater polygenic loading for schizophrenia in cases with a family history of illness

TB Bigdeli, S Ripke, SA Bacanu, SH Lee… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia have yielded more than 100
common susceptibility variants, and strongly support a substantial polygenic contribution of …

Systematic prioritization and integrative analysis of copy number variations in schizophrenia reveal key schizophrenia susceptibility genes

X Luo, L Huang, L Han, Z Luo, F Hu… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is a common mental disorder with high heritability and strong genetic
heterogeneity. Common disease-common variants hypothesis predicts that schizophrenia is …