Bipolar disorders

RS McIntyre, M Berk, E Brietzke, BI Goldstein… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Bipolar disorders are a complex group of severe and chronic disorders that includes bipolar
I disorder, defined by the presence of a syndromal, manic episode, and bipolar II disorder …

The genetics of bipolar disorder

FJA Gordovez, FJ McMahon - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most heritable mental illnesses, but the elucidation of its
genetic basis has proven to be a very challenging endeavor. Genome-Wide Association …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

EA Stahl, G Breen, AJ Forstner, A McQuillin, S Ripke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent …

Novel Alzheimer disease risk loci and pathways in African American individuals using the African genome resources panel: a meta-analysis

BW Kunkle, M Schmidt, HU Klein, AC Naj… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Compared with non-Hispanic White individuals, African American individuals
from the same community are approximately twice as likely to develop Alzheimer disease …

Genetics of bipolar disorder

N Craddock, P Sklar - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Studies of families and twins show the importance of genetic factors affecting susceptibility to
bipolar disorder and suggest substantial genetic and phenotypic complexity. Robust and …

Genome-wide association study reveals two new risk loci for bipolar disorder

TW Mühleisen, M Leber, TG Schulze… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a common and highly heritable mental illness and genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) have robustly identified the first common genetic variants …

Polygenic dissection of diagnosis and clinical dimensions of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

DM Ruderfer, AH Fanous, S Ripke, A McQuillin… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are two often severe disorders with high heritabilities.
Recent studies have demonstrated a large overlap of genetic risk loci between these …

Improved detection of common variants associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using pleiotropy-informed conditional false discovery rate

OA Andreassen, WK Thompson, AJ Schork… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Several lines of evidence suggest that genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have the
potential to explain more of the “missing heritability” of common complex phenotypes …

Genome-wide association study of 40,000 individuals identifies two novel loci associated with bipolar disorder

L Hou, SE Bergen, N Akula, J Song… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a genetically complex mental illness characterized by severe
oscillations of mood and behaviour. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have …