Cortical structural changes of morphometric similarity network in early-onset schizophrenia correlate with specific transcriptional expression patterns

G Yao, T Zou, J Luo, S Hu, L Yang, J Li, X Li, Y Zhang… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background This study aimed to investigate the neuroanatomical subtypes among early-
onset schizophrenia (EOS) patients by exploring the association between structural …

Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning

IM Kaplow, AJ Lawler, DE Schäffer, C Srinivasan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Protein-coding differences between species often fail to explain phenotypic diversity,
suggesting the involvement of genomic elements that regulate gene expression such as …

Transcriptomic pathology of neocortical microcircuit cell types across psychiatric disorders

K Arbabi, DF Newton, H Oh, MC Davie, DA Lewis… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BD), and
schizophrenia (SCZ) are characterized by altered cognition and mood, brain functions that …

Maternal immune activation downregulates schizophrenia genes in the foetal mouse brain

L Handunnetthi, D Saatci, JC Hamley… - Brain …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Susceptibility to schizophrenia is mediated by genetic and environmental risk factors.
Maternal immune activation by infections during pregnancy is hypothesized to be a key …

Genetic insights of schizophrenia via single cell RNA-sequencing analyses

Y Wu, CY Zhang, L Wang, Y Li, X Xiao - Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Schizophrenia is a complex and heterogeneous disorder involving multiple
regions and types of cells in the brain. Despite rapid progress made by genome-wide …

Genetics in psychiatry: Methods, clinical applications and future perspectives

C Fabbri - Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric disorders and related traits have a demonstrated genetic component, with
heritability estimated by twin studies generally between 80% and 40%. Their pathogenesis …

LRcell: detecting the source of differential expression at the sub–cell-type level from bulk RNA-seq data

W Ma, S Sharma, P Jin, SL Gourley… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Given most tissues are consist of abundant and diverse (sub-) cell types, an important yet
unaddressed problem in bulk RNA-seq analysis is to identify at which (sub-) cell type (s) the …

Spatially resolved gene regulatory and disease-related vulnerability map of the adult Macaque cortex

Y Lei, M Cheng, Z Li, Z Zhuang, L Wu, Y Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single cell approaches have increased our knowledge about the cell type composition of the
non-human primate (NHP), but a detailed characterization of area-specific regulatory …

Spironolactone alleviates schizophrenia-related reversal learning in Tcf4 transgenic mice subjected to social defeat

M Stephan, J Schoeller, FJ Raabe, A Schmitt, A Hasan… - Schizophrenia, 2022 - nature.com
Cognitive deficits are a hallmark of schizophrenia, for which no convincing pharmacological
treatment option is currently available. Here, we tested spironolactone as a repurposed …

Maternal immune activation induces methylation changes in schizophrenia genes

T Johnson, D Saatci, L Handunnetthi - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Susceptibility to schizophrenia is mediated by genetic and environmental risk factors.
Infection driven maternal immune activation (MIA) during pregnancy is a key environmental …