Profiling gene expression in the human dentate gyrus granule cell layer reveals insights into schizophrenia and its genetic risk

AE Jaffe, DJ Hoeppner, T Saito, L Blanpain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Specific cell populations may have unique contributions to schizophrenia but may be missed
in studies of homogenate tissue. Here laser capture microdissection followed by RNA …

[PDF][PDF] Regional heterogeneity in gene expression, regulation, and coherence in the frontal cortex and hippocampus across development and schizophrenia

L Collado-Torres, EE Burke, A Peterson, JH Shin… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The hippocampus formation, although prominently implicated in schizophrenia
pathogenesis, has been overlooked in large-scale genomics efforts in the schizophrenic …

Common schizophrenia risk variants are enriched in open chromatin regions of human glutamatergic neurons

ME Hauberg, J Creus-Muncunill, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chromatin landscape of human brain cells encompasses key information to
understanding brain function. Here we use ATAC-seq to profile the chromatin structure in …

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 …

Neuron-specific signatures in the chromosomal connectome associated with schizophrenia risk

P Rajarajan, T Borrman, W Liao, N Schrode, E Flaherty… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Chromosomal conformations, topologically associated chromatin domains
(TADs) assembling in nested fashion across hundreds of kilobases, and other “three …

Analysis of the caudate nucleus transcriptome in individuals with schizophrenia highlights effects of antipsychotics and new risk genes

KJM Benjamin, Q Chen, AE Jaffe, JM Stolz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most studies of gene expression in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia have
focused on cortical regions, but subcortical nuclei such as the striatum are prominently …

Analyzing schizophrenia by DNA microarrays

S Horváth, Z Janka, K Mirnics - Biological psychiatry, 2011 - Elsevier
To understand the pathological processes of schizophrenia, we must embrace the analysis
of the diseased human brain: we will never be able to recapitulate the pathology of uniquely …

Cell-specific histone modification maps in the human frontal lobe link schizophrenia risk to the neuronal epigenome

K Girdhar, GE Hoffman, Y Jiang, L Brown… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Risk variants for schizophrenia affect more than 100 genomic loci, yet cell-and tissue-
specific roles underlying disease liability remain poorly characterized. We have generated …

Transcriptome sequencing revealed significant alteration of cortical promoter usage and splicing in schizophrenia

JQ Wu, X Wang, NJ Beveridge, PA Tooney, RJ Scott… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background While hybridization based analysis of the cortical transcriptome has provided
important insight into the neuropathology of schizophrenia, it represents a restricted view of …

Analysis of gene expression in two large schizophrenia cohorts identifies multiple changes associated with nerve terminal function

PR Maycox, F Kelly, A Taylor, S Bates, J Reid… - Molecular …, 2009 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a world-wide prevalence of 1%. The
pathophysiology of the illness is not understood, but is thought to have a strong genetic …