Cross-platform validation of neurotransmitter release impairments in schizophrenia patient-derived NRXN1-mutant neurons

CH Pak, T Danko, VR Mirabella… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Heterozygous NRXN1 deletions constitute the most prevalent currently known single-gene
mutation associated with schizophrenia, and additionally predispose to multiple other …

Increased burden of ultra-rare structural variants localizing to boundaries of topologically associated domains in schizophrenia

M Halvorsen, R Huh, N Oskolkov, J Wen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite considerable progress in schizophrenia genetics, most findings have been for large
rare structural variants and common variants in well-imputed regions with few genes …

A microbial-based approach to mental health: the potential of probiotics in the treatment of depression

D Johnson, V Letchumanan, CC Thum… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Probiotics are currently the subject of intensive research pursuits and also represent a multi-
billion-dollar global industry given their vast potential to improve human health. In addition …

A phenome-wide association and Mendelian Randomisation study of polygenic risk for depression in UK Biobank

X Shen, DM Howard, MJ Adams, WD Hill… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Depression is a leading cause of worldwide disability but there remains considerable
uncertainty regarding its neural and behavioural associations. Here, using non-overlapping …

Exploring the role and potential of probiotics in the field of mental health: major depressive disorder

D Johnson, S Thurairajasingam, V Letchumanan… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
The field of probiotic has been exponentially expanding over the recent decades with a
more therapeutic-centered research. Probiotics mediated microbiota modulation within the …

Associations of cigarette smoking with psychiatric disorders: evidence from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

S Yuan, H Yao, SC Larsson - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization study to determine the association of
smoking initiation with seven psychiatric disorders. We used 353 independent single …

Leveraging genome-wide data to investigate differences between opioid use vs. opioid dependence in 41,176 individuals from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

R Polimanti, RK Walters, EC Johnson… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
To provide insights into the biology of opioid dependence (OD) and opioid use (ie,
exposure, OE), we completed a genome-wide analysis comparing 4503 OD cases, 4173 …

Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS

WJ Peyrot, AL Price - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are highly genetically correlated, but little research has been
conducted on the genetic differences between disorders. We developed a new method …

The genetically informed neurobiology of addiction (GINA) model

R Bogdan, AS Hatoum, EC Johnson… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Addictions are heritable and unfold dynamically across the lifespan. One prominent
neurobiological theory proposes that substance-induced changes in neural circuitry promote …

A comprehensive gene-centric pleiotropic association analysis for 14 psychiatric disorders with GWAS summary statistics

H Lu, J Qiao, Z Shao, T Wang, S Huang, P Zeng - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed the
polygenic nature of psychiatric disorders and discovered a few of single-nucleotide …