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 …

Genetic influences on schizophrenia and subcortical brain volumes: large-scale proof of concept

B Franke, JL Stein, S Ripke, V Anttila, DP Hibar… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric illness with high heritability. Brain structure and
function differ, on average, between people with schizophrenia and healthy individuals. As …

Partitioning heritability analysis reveals a shared genetic basis of brain anatomy and schizophrenia

PH Lee, JT Baker, AJ Holmes, N Jahanshad, T Ge… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex genetic
etiology. Widespread cortical gray matter loss has been observed in patients and prodromal …

Grey and white matter microstructure is associated with polygenic risk for schizophrenia

EM Stauffer, RAI Bethlehem, V Warrier, GK Murray… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent discovery of approximately 270 common genetic variants associated with
schizophrenia has enabled polygenic risk scores (PRS) to be measured in the population …

Genetic association between schizophrenia and cortical brain surface area and thickness

W Cheng, O Frei, D van der Meer, Y Wang… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Schizophrenia is a complex heritable disorder associated with many genetic
variants, each with a small effect. While cortical differences between patients with …

Brain heterogeneity in schizophrenia and its association with polygenic risk

D Alnæs, T Kaufmann, D Van Der Meer… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Between-individual variability in brain structure is determined by gene-
environment interactions, possibly reflecting differential sensitivity to environmental and …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting schizophrenia genetics by utilizing genetic overlap with brain morphology

D Van der Meer, AA Shadrin, K O'Connell, F Bettella… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Schizophrenia is a complex polygenic disorder with subtle, distributed
abnormalities in brain morphology. There are indications of shared genetic architecture …

Predicting brain structure in population‐based samples with biologically informed genetic scores for schizophrenia

S Van der Auwera, K Wittfeld… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia is associated with brain structural abnormalities including gray and white
matter volume reductions. Whether these alterations are caused by genetic risk variants for …

Population-based mapping of polygenic risk for schizophrenia on the human brain: New opportunities to capture the dimensional aspects of severe mental disorders

LT Westlye, D Alnæs… - Biological …, 2019 - biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
Schizophrenia remains one of the major enigmas in modern biomedicine. The lack of
knowledge about disease mechanisms has hampered the development of preventive …

The effects of psychosis risk variants on brain connectivity: a review

O Mothersill, S Kelly, EJ Rose, G Donohoe - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2012 - frontiersin.org
In light of observed changes in connectivity in schizophrenia and the highly heritable nature
of the disease, neural connectivity may serve as an important intermediate phenotype for …