[PDF][PDF] Calcium channels, synaptic plasticity, and neuropsychiatric disease

E Nanou, WA Catterall - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Voltage-gated calcium channels couple depolarization of the cell-surface membrane to entry
of calcium, which triggers secretion, contraction, neurotransmission, gene expression, and …

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 …

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

AF Pardiñas, P Holmans, AJ Pocklington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

C Pantelis, GN Papadimitriou, S Papiol… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of
alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

S Ripke, C O'dushlaine, K Chambert, JL Moran… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is an idiopathic mental disorder with a heritable component and a substantial
public health impact. We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

Genetic variability in the regulation of gene expression in ten regions of the human brain

A Ramasamy, D Trabzuni, S Guelfi, V Varghese… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Germ-line genetic control of gene expression occurs via expression quantitative trait loci
(eQTLs). We present a large, exon-specific eQTL data set covering ten human brain regions …

Treatment resistant schizophrenia: Clinical, biological, and therapeutic perspectives

FC Nucifora Jr, E Woznica, BJ Lee, N Cascella… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS) refers to the significant proportion of
schizophrenia patients who continue to have symptoms and poor outcomes despite …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: understanding the biological correlates and remediation strategies

A Tripathi, SK Kar, R Shukla - Clinical Psychopharmacology and …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cognitive deficits are one of the core symptoms of schizophrenia that evolve during the
course of schizophrenia, after being originated even before the onset of illness. Existing …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial genome-wide association studies: lessons from human GWAS

RA Power, J Parkhill, T De Oliveira - Nature reviews genetics, 2017 - nature.com
The reduced costs of sequencing have led to whole-genome sequences for a large number
of microorganisms, enabling the application of microbial genome-wide association studies …

Analysis of copy number variations at 15 schizophrenia-associated loci

E Rees, JTR Walters, L Georgieva, AR Isles… - The British Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
BackgroundA number of copy number variants (CNVs) have been suggested as
susceptibility factors for schizophrenia. For some of these the data remain equivocal, and the …