Analysis of the caudate nucleus transcriptome in individuals with schizophrenia highlights effects of antipsychotics and new risk genes

KJM Benjamin, Q Chen, AE Jaffe, JM Stolz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most studies of gene expression in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia have
focused on cortical regions, but subcortical nuclei such as the striatum are prominently …

Common schizophrenia risk variants are enriched in open chromatin regions of human glutamatergic neurons

ME Hauberg, J Creus-Muncunill, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chromatin landscape of human brain cells encompasses key information to
understanding brain function. Here we use ATAC-seq to profile the chromatin structure in …

Developmental and genetic regulation of the human cortex transcriptome illuminate schizophrenia pathogenesis

AE Jaffe, RE Straub, JH Shin, R Tao, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified 108 schizophrenia risk loci, but biological
mechanisms for individual loci are largely unknown. Using developmental, genetic and …

A transcriptome-wide association study implicates specific pre-and post-synaptic abnormalities in schizophrenia

LS Hall, CW Medway, O Pain… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is a complex highly heritable disorder. Genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) have identified multiple loci that influence the risk of developing schizophrenia …

Consensus molecular environment of schizophrenia risk genes in coexpression networks shifting across age and brain regions

G Pergola, M Parihar, L Sportelli, R Bharadwaj… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental brain disorder whose genetic risk is associated with
shifting clinical phenomena across the life span. We investigated the convergence of …

Transcriptome sequencing revealed significant alteration of cortical promoter usage and splicing in schizophrenia

JQ Wu, X Wang, NJ Beveridge, PA Tooney, RJ Scott… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background While hybridization based analysis of the cortical transcriptome has provided
important insight into the neuropathology of schizophrenia, it represents a restricted view of …

Evaluating the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia in a large-scale genome-wide association study

AC Edwards, SA Bacanu, TB Bigdeli, A Moscati… - Schizophrenia …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The dopamine hypothesis, which posits that dysregulation of the dopaminergic
system is etiologic for schizophrenia, is among the most enduring biological theories in …

Cell-specific histone modification maps in the human frontal lobe link schizophrenia risk to the neuronal epigenome

K Girdhar, GE Hoffman, Y Jiang, L Brown… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Risk variants for schizophrenia affect more than 100 genomic loci, yet cell-and tissue-
specific roles underlying disease liability remain poorly characterized. We have generated …

A system-level transcriptomic analysis of schizophrenia using postmortem brain tissue samples

P Roussos, P Katsel, KL Davis, LJ Siever… - Archives of general …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context Schizophrenia is a common, highly heritable, neurodevelopmental mental illness,
characterized by genetic heterogeneity. Objective To identify abnormalities in the …

Analysis of gene expression in two large schizophrenia cohorts identifies multiple changes associated with nerve terminal function

PR Maycox, F Kelly, A Taylor, S Bates, J Reid… - Molecular …, 2009 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a world-wide prevalence of 1%. The
pathophysiology of the illness is not understood, but is thought to have a strong genetic …