Social cognitive neuroscience of empathy: Concepts, circuits, and genes

H Walter - Emotion Review, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews concepts of, as well as neurocognitive and genetic studies on, empathy.
Whereas cognitive empathy can be equated with affective theory of mind, that is, with …

[HTML][HTML] Connectomic intermediate phenotypes for psychiatric disorders

A Fornito, ET Bullmore - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Psychiatric disorders are phenotypically heterogeneous entities with a complex genetic
basis. To mitigate this complexity, many investigators study so-called intermediate …

[HTML][HTML] ZNF804a regulates expression of the schizophrenia-associated genes PRSS16, COMT, PDE4B, and DRD2

MJ Girgenti, JJ LoTurco, BJ Maher - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
ZNF804a was identified by a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in which a single
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP rs1344706) in ZNF804a reached genome-wide statistical …

Knockdown of the psychosis susceptibility gene ZNF804A alters expression of genes involved in cell adhesion

MJ Hill, AR Jeffries, RJB Dobson… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies have convincingly implicated several novel genes in
susceptibility to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The first genome-wide significant …

Recent genomic advances in schizophrenia

JL Doherty, MC O'Donovan, MJ Owen - Clinical genetics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Doherty JL, O'Donovan MC, Owen MJ. Recent genomic advances in schizoprenia. Recent
studies have supported the hypothesis based upon expectations from population genetics …

Association study of nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in schizophrenia

N Carrera, M Arrojo, J Sanjuán, R Ramos-Ríos… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies using several hundred thousand
anonymous markers present limited statistical power. Alternatively, association studies …

Evidence That Schizophrenia Risk Variation in the ZNF804A Gene Exerts Its Effects During Fetal Brain Development

MJ Hill, NJ Bray - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2012 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective The single-nucleotide polymorphism rs1344706, located within an intron of the
ZNF804A gene, exhibits genome-wide significant association with schizophrenia. Although …

Resequencing and Association Analysis of the KALRN and EPHB1 Genes And Their Contribution to Schizophrenia Susceptibility

I Kushima, Y Nakamura, B Aleksic, M Ikeda… - Schizophrenia …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background: Our genome-wide association study of schizophrenia found association
signals at the Kalirin gene (KALRN) and EPH receptor B1 gene (EPHB1) in a Japanese …

Influence of ZNF804a on brain structure volumes and symptom severity in individuals with schizophrenia

TH Wassink, EA Epping, D Rudd… - Archives of general …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context The single-nucleotide polymorphism rs1344706 in the gene ZNF804a has been
associated with schizophrenia and with quantitative phenotypic features, including brain …

Schizophrenia genetics: putting all the pieces together

SL Girard, PA Dion, GA Rouleau - Current neurology and neuroscience …, 2012 - Springer
Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder characterized by a deep disruption of the thinking
process and of emotional response. For many decades, genetics studies have yielded little …