Charting the landscape of genetic overlap between mental disorders and related traits beyond genetic correlation

G Hindley, O Frei, AA Shadrin… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Mental disorders are heritable and polygenic, and genome-wide genetic
correlations (rg) have indicated widespread shared genetic risk across multiple disorders …

Assessing the evidence for shared genetic risks across psychiatric disorders and traits

J Martin, MJ Taylor, P Lichtenstein - Psychological medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
Genetic influences play a significant role in risk for psychiatric disorders, prompting
numerous endeavors to further understand their underlying genetic architecture. In this …

Phenotypically independent profiles relevant to mental health are genetically correlated

D Roelfs, D Alnæs, O Frei, D van der Meer… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and family-based studies have revealed partly
overlapping genetic architectures between various psychiatric disorders. Given clinical …

The emerging pattern of shared polygenic architecture of psychiatric disorders, conceptual and methodological challenges

OB Smeland, O Frei, CC Fan, A Shadrin… - Psychiatric …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Genome-wide association studies have transformed psychiatric genetics and provided novel
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders. Two major discoveries have …

Embracing polygenicity: a review of methods and tools for psychiatric genetics research

RM Maier, PM Visscher, MR Robinson… - Psychological …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The availability of genome-wide genetic data on hundreds of thousands of people has led to
an equally rapid growth in methodologies available to analyse these data. While the …

Shared genetic architecture across psychiatric disorders

AD Grotzinger - Psychological medicine, 2021 - cambridge.org
Psychiatric disorders overlap substantially at the genetic level, with family-based methods
long pointing toward transdiagnostic risk pathways. Psychiatric genomics has progressed …

Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis

AD Grotzinger, TT Mallard, WA Akingbuwa, HF Ip… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We interrogate the joint genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at
biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. We identify four …

Bivariate causal mixture model quantifies polygenic overlap between complex traits beyond genetic correlation

O Frei, D Holland, OB Smeland, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence from genome wide association studies (GWAS) suggests an
abundance of shared genetic influences among complex human traits and disorders, such …

Examining the shared etiology of psychopathology with genome-wide association studies

TT Mallard, AD Grotzinger… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have ushered in a new era of reproducible
discovery in psychiatric genetics. The field has now identified hundreds of common genetic …

Not just one p: Multivariate GWAS of psychiatric disorders and their cardinal symptoms reveal two dimensions of cross-cutting genetic liabilities

TT Mallard, RK Linnér, A Okbay, AD Grotzinger… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
A single dimension of general psychopathology, p, has been hypothesized to represent a
general liability that spans multiple types of psychiatric disorders and non-clinical variation …