A genome-wide association study of shared risk across psychiatric disorders implicates gene regulation during fetal neurodevelopment

AJ Schork, H Won, V Appadurai, R Nudel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
There is mounting evidence that seemingly diverse psychiatric disorders share genetic
etiology, but the biological substrates mediating this overlap are not well characterized. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Expression quantitative trait loci in the developing human brain and their enrichment in neuropsychiatric disorders

HE O'Brien, E Hannon, MJ Hill, CC Toste… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Genetic influences on gene expression in the human fetal brain plausibly
impact upon a variety of postnatal brain-related traits, including susceptibility to …

Case-control genome-wide association study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

BM Neale, S Medland, S Ripke, RJL Anney… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Although twin and family studies have shown attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) to be highly heritable, genetic variants influencing the trait at a genome …

Polygenic transmission and complex neuro developmental network for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Genome‐wide association study of both common and …

L Yang, BM Neale, L Liu, SH Lee… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex polygenic disorder. This study
aimed to discover common and rare DNA variants associated with ADHD in a large …

A cross-disorder method to identify novel candidate genes for developmental brain disorders

AJ Gonzalez-Mantilla, A Moreno-De-Luca… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Developmental brain disorders are a group of clinically and genetically
heterogeneous disorders characterized by high heritability. Specific highly penetrant genetic …

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains

D Demontis, GB Walters, G Athanasiadis, R Walters… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder
with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta …

Multi-tissue transcriptome analyses identify genetic mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric traits

ER Gamazon, AH Zwinderman, NJ Cox, D Denys… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders is characterized by a large number of small-
effect variants located primarily in non-coding regions, suggesting that the underlying causal …

Genetic patterning for child psychopathology is distinct from that for adults and implicates fetal cerebellar development

DE Hughes, K Kunitoki, S Elyounssi, M Luo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Childhood psychiatric symptoms are often diffuse but can coalesce into discrete mental
illnesses during late adolescence. We leveraged polygenic scores (PGSs) to parse genomic …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying drug targets for neurological and psychiatric disease via genetics and the brain transcriptome

DA Baird, JZ Liu, J Zheng, SK Sieberts, T Perumal… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Discovering drugs that efficiently treat brain diseases has been challenging. Genetic
variants that modulate the expression of potential drug targets can be utilized to assess the …

Novel loci associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are revealed by leveraging polygenic overlap with educational attainment

AA Shadrin, OB Smeland, T Zayats, AJ Schork… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and highly heritable
psychiatric condition. By exploiting the reported relationship between ADHD and …