Derivation and utility of schizophrenia polygenic risk associated multimodal MRI frontotemporal network

S Qi, J Sui, G Pearlson, J Bustillo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder characterized by widespread
functional and structural brain abnormalities. However, previous association studies …

Severe COVID-19 increases the risk of schizophrenia

A Baranova, H Cao, F Zhang - Psychiatry Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 invades the central nervous system, impacting the mental
health of COVID-19 patients. We performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization …

Examining the shared etiology of psychopathology with genome-wide association studies

TT Mallard, AD Grotzinger… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have ushered in a new era of reproducible
discovery in psychiatric genetics. The field has now identified hundreds of common genetic …

Polygenic risk scores for predicting outcomes and treatment response in psychiatry: hope or hype?

L Fusar-Poli, BPF Rutten, J van Os… - … Review of Psychiatry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last years, the decreased costs and enhanced accessibility to large genome-wide
association studies datasets have laid the foundations for the development of polygenic risk …

Psychosis spectrum illnesses as disorders of prefrontal critical period plasticity

S Vinogradov, MV Chafee, E Lee… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging research on neuroplasticity processes in psychosis spectrum illnesses—from the
synaptic to the macrocircuit levels—fill key gaps in our models of pathophysiology and open …

Characterizing the shared genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease risk factors

L Rødevand, Z Rahman, GFL Hindley… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Schizophrenia is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD),
although there is variation in risk among individuals. There are indications of shared genetic …

Integration of epigenetic and genetic profiles identifies multiple sclerosis disease-critical cell types and genes

Q Ma, H Shams, A Didonna, SE Baranzini… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) successfully identified multiple sclerosis (MS)
susceptibility variants. Despite this notable progress, understanding the biological context of …

Genome-wide tandem repeat expansions contribute to schizophrenia risk

BA Mojarad, W Engchuan, B Trost, I Backstrom… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Tandem repeat expansions (TREs) can cause neurological diseases but their impact in
schizophrenia is unclear. Here we analyzed genome sequences of adults with …

Antipsychotic drug use complicates assessment of gene expression changes associated with schizophrenia

A Schulmann, S Marenco, MP Vawter, N Akula… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent postmortem transcriptomic studies of schizophrenia (SCZ) have shown hundreds of
differentially expressed genes. However, the extent to which these gene expression …

Loss of schizophrenia-related miR-501-3p in mice impairs sociability and memory by enhancing mGluR5-mediated glutamatergic transmission

W Liang, Y Hou, W Huang, Y Wang, T Jiang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a polygenetic disease, the heterogeneity of which is likely complicated by
epigenetic modifications yet to be elucidated. Here, we performed transcriptomic analysis of …