The contribution of rare variants to risk of schizophrenia in individuals with and without intellectual disability

T Singh, JTR Walters, M Johnstone, D Curtis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
By performing a meta-analysis of rare coding variants in whole-exome sequences from
4,133 schizophrenia cases and 9,274 controls, de novo mutations in 1,077 family trios, and …

[HTML][HTML] Schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders and developmental disorders share specific disruptive coding mutations

E Rees, HDJ Creeth, HG Hwu, WJ Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
People with schizophrenia are enriched for rare coding variants in genes associated with
neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism spectrum disorders and intellectual …

High-impact rare genetic variants in severe schizophrenia

AW Zoghbi, RS Dhindsa, TE Goldberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Extreme phenotype sequencing has led to the identification of high-impact rare genetic
variants for many complex disorders but has not been applied to studies of severe …

Strong association of de novo copy number mutations with sporadic schizophrenia

B Xu, JL Roos, S Levy, EJ Van Rensburg, JA Gogos… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is an etiologically heterogeneous psychiatric disease, which exists in familial
and nonfamilial (sporadic) forms. Here, we examine the possibility that rare de novo copy …

Increased exonic de novo mutation rate in individuals with schizophrenia

SL Girard, J Gauthier, A Noreau, L Xiong, S Zhou… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that profoundly affects cognitive, behavioral
and emotional processes. The wide spectrum of symptoms and clinical variability in …

Elucidating the genetic architecture of familial schizophrenia using rare copy number variant and linkage scans

B Xu, A Woodroffe… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
To elucidate the genetic architecture of familial schizophrenia we combine linkage analysis
with studies of fine-level chromosomal variation in families recruited from the Afrikaner …

Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia

G Genovese, M Fromer, EA Stahl, DM Ruderfer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
By analyzing the exomes of 12,332 unrelated Swedish individuals, including 4,877
individuals affected with schizophrenia, in ways informed by exome sequences from 45,376 …

Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

M Fromer, P Roussos, SK Sieberts, JS Johnson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia-associated variants, yet how these variants
confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from …

De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate chromatin remodeling and support a genetic overlap with autism and intellectual disability

SE McCarthy, J Gillis, M Kramer, J Lihm, S Yoon… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disorder with a broadly undiscovered genetic
etiology. Recent studies of de novo mutations (DNMs) in schizophrenia and autism have …

[HTML][HTML] Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations

D Liu, D Meyer, B Fennessy, C Feng, E Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a chronic mental illness and among the most debilitating conditions
encountered in medical practice. A recent landmark SCZ study of the protein-coding regions …