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 …

De novo gene mutations highlight patterns of genetic and neural complexity in schizophrenia

B Xu, I Ionita-Laza, JL Roos, B Boone, S Woodrick… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
To evaluate evidence for de novo etiologies in schizophrenia, we sequenced at high
coverage the exomes of families recruited from two populations with distinct demographic …

From maps to mechanisms through neuroimaging of schizophrenia

A Meyer-Lindenberg - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Functional and structural brain imaging has identified neural and neurotransmitter systems
involved in schizophrenia and their link to cognitive and behavioural disturbances such as …

Mapping genomic loci prioritises genes and implicates synaptic biology in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric … - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder whose pathophysiology is largely unknown. It has a
heritability of 60-80%, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles, suggesting …

Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia

NG Skene, J Bryois, TE Bakken, G Breen, JJ Crowley… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
With few exceptions, the marked advances in knowledge about the genetic basis of
schizophrenia have not converged on findings that can be confidently used for precise …

Schizophrenia: diverse approaches to a complex disease

A Sawa, SH Snyder - Science, 2002 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects 1% of the population. Despite
intensive study, its molecular etiology remains enigmatic. Like many common diseases …

Rethinking schizophrenia

TR Insel - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
How will we view schizophrenia in 2030? Schizophrenia today is a chronic, frequently
disabling mental disorder that affects about one per cent of the world's population. After a …

Pathophysiologically based treatment interventions in schizophrenia

DA Lewis, G Gonzalez-Burgos - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
Identifying the molecular alterations that underlie the pathophysiology of critical clinical
features of schizophrenia is an essential step in the rational development of new therapeutic …

Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

… Consortium Manuscript preparation Purcell Shaun M … - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a lifetime risk of about 1%, characterized by
hallucinations, delusions and cognitive deficits, with heritability estimated at up to 80%,. We …

Genetic risk for schizophrenia: convergence on synaptic pathways involved in plasticity

J Hall, S Trent, KL Thomas, MC O'Donovan… - Biological psychiatry, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent large-scale genomic studies have revealed two broad classes of risk alleles for
schizophrenia: a polygenic component of risk mediated through multiple common risk …