Use of next-generation sequencing and other whole-genome strategies to dissect neurological disease

J Bras, R Guerreiro, J Hardy - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
Over the past five years the field of neurogenetics has yielded a wealth of data that have
facilitated a much greater understanding of the aetiology of many neurological diseases …

Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing in neurological diseases

JN Foo, JJ Liu, EK Tan - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2012 - nature.com
Genetic risk factors that underlie many rare and common neurological disorders remain
poorly understood because of the multifactorial and heterogeneous nature of these complex …

[HTML][HTML] Application of next-generation sequencing technologies in Neurology

T Jiang, MS Tan, L Tan, JT Yu - Annals of translational medicine, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genetic risk factors that underlie many rare and common neurological diseases remain
poorly understood because of the multi-factorial and heterogeneous nature of these …

Whole-genome analyses of whole-brain data: working within an expanded search space

SE Medland, N Jahanshad, BM Neale… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Large-scale comparisons of patients and healthy controls have unearthed genetic risk
factors associated with a range of neurological and psychiatric illnesses. Meanwhile, brain …

Next-generation sequencing in understanding complex neurological disease

AE Handel, G Disanto… - Expert review of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Next-generation sequencing techniques have made vast quantities of data on human
genomes and transcriptomes available to researchers. Huge progress has been made …

Neurogenetics: advancing the “next-generation” of brain research

HY Zoghbi, ST Warren - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
There can be little doubt that genetics has transformed our understanding of mechanisms
mediating brain disorders. The last two decades have brought tremendous progress in terms …

A population genetic approach to mapping neurological disorder genes using deep resequencing

RA Myers, F Casals, J Gauthier, FF Hamdan… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Deep resequencing of functional regions in human genomes is key to identifying potentially
causal rare variants for complex disorders. Here, we present the results from a large-sample …

Allelic diversity in human developmental neurogenetics: insights into biology and disease

CA Walsh, EC Engle - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
One of the biggest challenges in neuroscience is illuminating the architecture of
developmental brain disorders, which include structural malformations of the brain and …

Towards unveiling the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases

CM Lill, L Bertram - Seminars in neurology, 2011 - thieme-connect.com
In addition to sharing several clinical, pathologic, and molecular characteristics, many
neurodegenerative disorders show extensive familial histories suggesting a substantial …

Next generation sequencing techniques in neurological diseases: redefining clinical and molecular associations

R Guerreiro, J Brás, J Hardy… - Human molecular …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The development of next-generation sequencing technologies has allowed for the
identification of several new genes and genetic factors in human genetics. Common results …