Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are serious mental illnesses that affect more than 2% of adults. While large-scale genetics studies have identified genomic regions associated with …
Background Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BIP) are debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders, collectively affecting 2% of the world's population. Recognizing …
AJ Forstner, J Hecker, A Hofmann, A Maaser… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly heritable neuropsychiatric disease characterized by recurrent episodes of mania and depression. BD shows substantial clinical and genetic …
Ten years ago it was widely expected that the genetic basis of common disease would be resolved by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), large-scale studies in which the …
We examined the role of common genetic variation in schizophrenia in a genome-wide association study of substantial size: a stage 1 discovery sample of 21,856 individuals of …
HM Ollila, P Soronen, K Silander, OM Palo… - Molecular …, 2009 - nature.com
Recently, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded replicable findings and confirmed previous candidate genes as important factors in non-psychiatric diseases such …
D Zhang, L Cheng, Y Qian, N Alliey-Rodriguez… - Molecular …, 2009 - nature.com
An overall burden of rare structural genomic variants has not been reported in bipolar disorder (BD), although there have been reports of cases with microduplication and …
We have conducted a genotyping study using a custom Illumina Infinium HD genotyping array, the ImmunoChip, in a new UK sample of 1218 bipolar disorder (BD) cases and 2913 …
H Le‐Niculescu, SD Patel, M Bhat… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Given the mounting convergent evidence implicating many more genes in complex disorders such as bipolar disorder than the small number identified unambiguously by the …