[HTML][HTML] Immune marker levels in severe mental disorders: associations with polygenic risk scores of related mental phenotypes and psoriasis

MCF Werner, KV Wirgenes, A Shadrin… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Several lines of evidence implicate immune abnormalities in the pathophysiology of severe
mental disorders (SMD) and comorbid mental disorders. Here, we use the data from …

[HTML][HTML] Elevated endogenous GDNF induces altered dopamine signalling in mice and correlates with clinical severity in schizophrenia

K Mätlik, DR Garton, AR Montaño-Rodríguez… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Presynaptic increase in striatal dopamine is the primary dopaminergic abnormality in
schizophrenia, but the underlying mechanisms are not understood. Here, we hypothesized …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic relationships between brain structure and schizophrenia

EM Stauffer, RAI Bethlehem, L Dorfschmidt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic risks for schizophrenia are theoretically mediated by genetic effects on brain
structure but it has been unclear which genes are associated with both schizophrenia and …

Psychiatric disorders and brain white matter exhibit genetic overlap implicating developmental and neural cell biology

N Parker, W Cheng, GFL Hindley, P Parekh… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Improved understanding of the shared genetic architecture between psychiatric disorders
and brain white matter may provide mechanistic insights for observed phenotypic …

[HTML][HTML] Single-nucleus RNA sequencing of midbrain blood-brain barrier cells in schizophrenia reveals subtle transcriptional changes with overall preservation of …

S Puvogel, A Alsema, L Kracht, MJ Webster… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The midbrain is an extensively studied brain region in schizophrenia, in view of its reported
dopamine pathophysiology and neuroimmune changes associated with this disease …

Shared genetic loci between schizophrenia and white blood cell counts suggest genetically determined systemic immune abnormalities

NE Steen, Z Rahman, A Szabo… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Immune mechanisms are indicated in schizophrenia (SCZ). Recent genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants associated with SCZ and …

Charting the landscape of genetic overlap between mental disorders and related traits beyond genetic correlation

G Hindley, O Frei, AA Shadrin… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Mental disorders are heritable and polygenic, and genome-wide genetic
correlations (rg) have indicated widespread shared genetic risk across multiple disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Improving knowledge on pathways to functional outcome in schizophrenia: main results from the Italian network for research on psychoses

L Giuliani, GM Giordano, P Bucci, P Pezzella… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The identification of factors associated with functional outcome of subjects with
schizophrenia is a great challenge in current research oriented to the personalization of …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting treatment response in schizophrenia with magnetic resonance imaging and polygenic risk score

M Wang, K Hu, L Fan, H Yan, P Li, T Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Prior studies have separately demonstrated that magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) and schizophrenia polygenic risk score (PRS) are predictive of antipsychotic …

Revisiting tandem repeats in psychiatric disorders from perspectives of genetics, physiology, and brain evolution

X Xiao, CY Zhang, Z Zhang, Z Hu, M Li, T Li - Molecular Psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed substantial genetic components
comprised of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the heritable risk of psychiatric …