The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research

R Kotov, DC Cicero, CC Conway… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) has emerged out of the
quantitative approach to psychiatric nosology. This approach identifies psychopathology …

Dimensional and transdiagnostic phenotypes in psychiatric genome-wide association studies

MA Waszczuk, KG Jonas, M Bornovalova, G Breen… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide biological insights into disease onset
and progression and have potential to produce clinically useful biomarkers. A growing body …

Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders

AS Hatoum, SMC Colbert, EC Johnson… - Nature Mental …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic liability to substance use disorders can be parsed into loci that confer general or
substance-specific addiction risk. We report a multivariate genome-wide association meta …

Cross-ancestry meta-analysis of opioid use disorder uncovers novel loci with predominant effects in brain regions associated with addiction

RL Kember, R Vickers-Smith, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite an estimated heritability of~ 50%, genome-wide association studies of opioid use
disorder (OUD) have revealed few genome-wide significant loci. We conducted a cross …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

H Zhou, RL Kember, JD Deak, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Problematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-
related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity …

Multivariate genetic analysis of personality and cognitive traits reveals abundant pleiotropy

G Hindley, AA Shadrin, D van der Meer… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
Personality and cognitive function are heritable mental traits whose genetic foundations may
be distributed across interconnected brain functions. Previous studies have typically treated …

Genome-wide analysis of a model-derived binge eating disorder phenotype identifies risk loci and implicates iron metabolism

D Burstein, TC Griffen, K Therrien, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder, yet its genetic architecture
remains largely unknown. Studying BED is challenging because it is often comorbid with …

[HTML][HTML] Multivariate genome-wide analysis of aging-related traits identifies novel loci and new drug targets for healthy aging

DB Rosoff, LA Mavromatis, AS Bell, J Wagner, J Jung… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of aging is complex, including many related phenotypes such as healthspan,
lifespan, extreme longevity, frailty and epigenetic aging, suggesting shared biological …

[HTML][HTML] CADM2 is implicated in impulsive personality and numerous other traits by genome- and phenome-wide association studies in humans and mice

S Sanchez-Roige, MV Jennings, HHA Thorpe… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Impulsivity is a multidimensional heritable phenotype that broadly refers to the tendency to
act prematurely and is associated with multiple forms of psychopathology, including …

The addiction risk factor: A unitary genetic vulnerability characterizes substance use disorders and their associations with common correlates

AS Hatoum, EC Johnson, SMC Colbert… - …, 2022 - nature.com
Substance use disorders commonly co-occur with one another and with other psychiatric
disorders. They share common features including high impulsivity, negative affect, and lower …