Characterizing the shared genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease risk factors

L Rødevand, Z Rahman, GFL Hindley… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Schizophrenia is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD),
although there is variation in risk among individuals. There are indications of shared genetic …

Exploring the relationship between schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease: a genetic correlation and multivariable Mendelian randomization study

RR Veeneman, JM Vermeulen… - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Individuals with schizophrenia have a reduced life-expectancy compared to the general
population, largely due to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Clinical and …

Evidence for shared genetic aetiology between schizophrenia, cardiometabolic, and inflammation-related traits: genetic correlation and colocalization analyses

BI Perry, N Bowker, S Burgess… - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Schizophrenia commonly co-occurs with cardiometabolic and inflammation-
related traits. It is unclear to what extent the comorbidity could be explained by shared …

Exploring shared genetic bases and causal relationships of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with 28 cardiovascular and metabolic traits

HC So, KL Chau, FK Ao, CH Mo, PC Sham - Psychological Medicine, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundCardiovascular diseases represent a major health issue in patients with
schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), but the exact nature of cardiometabolic (CM) …

[PDF][PDF] Improved detection of common variants associated with schizophrenia by leveraging pleiotropy with cardiovascular-disease risk factors

OA Andreassen, S Djurovic, WK Thompson… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Several lines of evidence suggest that genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have the
potential to explain more of the" missing heritability" of common complex phenotypes …

Uncovering the hidden risk architecture of the schizophrenias: confirmation in three independent genome-wide association studies

J Arnedo, DM Svrakic, C Del Val… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors sought to demonstrate that schizophrenia is a heterogeneous group
of heritable disorders caused by different genotypic networks that cause distinct clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated analysis of summary statistics to identify pleiotropic genes and pathways for the comorbidity of schizophrenia and cardiometabolic disease

H Liu, Y Sun, X Zhang, S Li, D Hu, L Xiao… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified abundant risk loci associated with
schizophrenia (SCZ), cardiometabolic disease (CMD) including body mass index, coronary …

Genome‐wide association study reveals greater polygenic loading for schizophrenia in cases with a family history of illness

TB Bigdeli, S Ripke, SA Bacanu, SH Lee… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia have yielded more than 100
common susceptibility variants, and strongly support a substantial polygenic contribution of …

Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia: a pathway analysis of GWAS data

P Jia, L Wang, HY Meltzer, Z Zhao - Schizophrenia research, 2010 - Elsevier
Unlike the typical analysis of single markers in genome-wide association studies (GWAS),
we incorporated Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) and hypergeometric test and …

Association between substance use disorder and polygenic liability to schizophrenia

SM Hartz, AC Horton, M Oehlert, CE Carey… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background There are high levels of comorbidity between schizophrenia and substance use
disorder, but little is known about the genetic etiology of this comorbidity. Methods We tested …