Astrocyte-secreted chordin-like 1 drives synapse maturation and limits plasticity by increasing synaptic GluA2 AMPA receptors

E Blanco-Suarez, TF Liu, A Kopelevich, NJ Allen - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
In the developing brain, immature synapses contain calcium-permeable AMPA glutamate
receptors (AMPARs) that are subsequently replaced with GluA2-containing calcium …

Neuroimmune transcriptome changes in patient brains of psychiatric and neurological disorders

Y Chen, J Dai, L Tang, T Mikhailova, Q Liang, M Li… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroinflammation has been implicated in multiple brain disorders but the extent and the
magnitude of change in immune-related genes (IRGs) across distinct brain disorders has not …

Genetic mapping of etiologic brain cell types for obesity

PN Timshel, JJ Thompson, TH Pers - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The underlying cell types mediating predisposition to obesity remain largely obscure. Here,
we integrated recently published single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from 727 …

Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility

CL Hartl, G Ramaswami, WG Pembroke, S Muller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gene networks have yielded numerous neurobiological insights, yet an integrated view
across brain regions is lacking. We leverage RNA sequencing in 864 samples representing …

Mechanisms of tissue and cell-type specificity in heritable traits and diseases

I Hekselman, E Yeger-Lotem - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Hundreds of heritable traits and diseases that are caused by germline aberrations in
ubiquitously expressed genes manifest in a remarkably limited number of cell types and …

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 …

Transcriptomic landscape and functional characterization of induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cerebral organoids in schizophrenia

A Kathuria, K Lopez-Lengowski, SS Jagtap… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Three-dimensional cerebral organoids generated from patient-derived induced
pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) may be used to interrogate cellular-molecular underpinnings …

Autism spectrum disorder: insights into convergent mechanisms from transcriptomics

M Quesnel-Vallières, RJ Weatheritt, SP Cordes… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Heredity has a major role in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet underlying causal genetic
variants have been defined only in a fairly small subset of cases. The enormous genetic …

Mitochondria, metabolism, and redox mechanisms in psychiatric disorders

Y Kim, KC Vadodaria, Z Lenkei, T Kato… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Our current knowledge of the pathophysiology and molecular mechanisms
causing psychiatric disorders is modest, but genetic susceptibility and environmental factors …

Cognitive dysfunction and prefrontal cortical circuit alterations in schizophrenia: developmental trajectories

SJ Dienel, KE Schoonover, DA Lewis - Biological psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) exhibit cognitive performance below expected levels
based on familial cognitive aptitude. One such cognitive process, working memory (WM), is …