Dissecting polygenic signals from genome-wide association studies on human behaviour

A Abdellaoui, KJH Verweij - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies on human behavioural traits are producing large amounts
of polygenic signals with significant predictive power and potentially useful biological clues …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and their relationship to genetic risk: current knowledge and future directions

N Robinson, SE Bergen - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe psychiatric disorders which result
from complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors. It is well-established that …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis

AD Grotzinger, TT Mallard, WA Akingbuwa, HF Ip… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We interrogate the joint genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at
biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. We identify four …

Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia

DS Palmer, DP Howrigan, SB Chapman, R Adolfsson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We report results from the Bipolar Exome (BipEx) collaboration analysis of whole-exome
sequencing of 13,933 patients with bipolar disorder (BD) matched with 14,422 controls. We …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic associations of protein-coding variants in human disease

BB Sun, MI Kurki, CN Foley, A Mechakra, CY Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic variants
linked to the risk of human disease. However, GWAS have so far remained largely …

The genetic basis of major depression

KM Kendall, E Van Assche, TFM Andlauer… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, debilitating, phenotypically heterogeneous
disorder with heritability ranges from 30% to 50%. Compared to other psychiatric disorders …

Genetic architecture of schizophrenia: a review of major advancements

SE Legge, ML Santoro, S Periyasamy… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with high heritability. Consortia efforts and
technological advancements have led to a substantial increase in knowledge of the genetic …

GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background

N Sinnott-Armstrong, S Naqvi, M Rivas, JK Pritchard - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to study the genetic basis of a
wide variety of complex diseases and other traits. We describe UK Biobank GWAS results for …

Prognostic value of polygenic risk scores for adults with psychosis

I Landi, DA Kaji, L Cotter, T Van Vleck, G Belbin… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) summarize genetic liability to a disease at the individual level,
and the aim is to use them as biomarkers of disease and poor outcomes in real-world …