[HTML][HTML] Genetics of schizophrenia

E Rees, MC O'Donovan, MJ Owen - Current Opinion in Behavioral …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•The genetic liability of schizophrenia is established as polygenic.•Schizophrenia
risk alleles converge onto specific synaptic gene-sets.•Schizophrenia shares risk alleles with …

New findings in the genetics of major psychoses

MM Nöthen, V Nieratschker, S Cichon… - Dialogues in clinical …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have a largely unknown pathophysiology and etiology,
but they are highly heritable. Although linkage and association studies have identified a …

[PDF][PDF] Phenotypic landscape of schizophrenia-associated genes defines candidates and their shared functions

SB Thyme, LM Pieper, EH Li, S Pandey, Y Wang… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genomic studies have identified hundreds of candidate genes near loci associated with risk
for schizophrenia. To define candidates and their functions, we mutated zebrafish orthologs …

Whole genome sequencing of 91 multiplex schizophrenia families reveals increased burden of rare, exonic copy number variation in schizophrenia probands and …

FF Khan, PE Melton, NS McCarthy, B Morar… - Schizophrenia …, 2018 - Elsevier
The importance of genomic copy number variants (CNVs) has long been recognized in the
etiology of neurodevelopmental diseases. We report here the results from the CNV analysis …

SZGR 2.0: a one-stop shop of schizophrenia candidate genes

P Jia, G Han, J Zhao, P Lu, Z Zhao - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
SZGR 2.0 is a comprehensive resource of candidate variants and genes for schizophrenia,
covering genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, translational and many other types of evidence …

Copy number variations in schizophrenia: critical review and new perspectives on concepts of genetics and disease

AS Bassett, SW Scherer… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Structural variations of DNA, such as copy number variations (CNVs), are
recognized to contribute both to normal genomic variability and to risk for human diseases …

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) and copy number variation (CNV) studies of the major psychoses: what have we learnt?

KW Lee, P San Woon, YY Teo, K Sim - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2012 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BPD) have high heritabilities and are clinically and
genetically complex. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) and studies of copy number …

Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

M Lam, CY Chen, Z Li, AR Martin, J Bryois, X Ma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with approximately 1% lifetime risk
globally. Large-scale schizophrenia genetic studies have reported primarily on European …

Boosting the power of schizophrenia genetics by leveraging new statistical tools

OA Andreassen, WK Thompson… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of gene variants
associated with schizophrenia, but these variants explain only a small portion of the …

Progress in genome-wide association studies of schizophrenia in Han Chinese populations

W Yue, X Yu, D Zhang - npj Schizophrenia, 2017 - nature.com
Since 2006, genome-wide association studies of schizophrenia have led to the identification
of numerous novel risk loci for this disease. However, there remains a geographical …