Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field

A Abi‐Dargham, SJ Moeller, F Ali… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of psychiatry is hampered by a lack of robust, reliable and valid biomarkers that can
aid in objectively diagnosing patients and providing individualized treatment …

Epigenomic signatures reveal mechanistic clues and predictive markers for autism spectrum disorder

JM LaSalle - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) comprises a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental
outcomes in children with a commonality in deficits in social communication and language …

Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation

B Trost, B Thiruvahindrapuram, AJS Chan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fully understanding autism spectrum disorder (ASD) genetics requires whole-genome
sequencing (WGS). We present the latest release of the Autism Speaks MSSNG resource …

The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families

M Cirnigliaro, TS Chang, SA Arteaga… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a complex genetic architecture involving contributions
from both de novo and inherited variation. Few studies have been designed to address the …

Autism severity and its relationship to disability

E Waizbard‐Bartov, D Fein, C Lord… - Autism …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Autism severity is currently defined and measured based exclusively on the severity levels of
the two core symptom domains: social‐communication and restricted or repetitive patterns of …

Integrated gene analyses of de novo variants from 46,612 trios with autism and developmental disorders

T Wang, CN Kim, TE Bakken… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Most genetic studies consider autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental disorder
(DD) separately despite overwhelming comorbidity and shared genetic etiology. Here, we …

ROS-dependent S-palmitoylation activates cleaved and intact gasdermin D

G Du, LB Healy, L David, C Walker, TJ El-Baba… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Gasdermin D (GSDMD) is the common effector for cytokine secretion and pyroptosis
downstream of inflammasome activation and was previously shown to form large …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell long-read sequencing in human cerebral organoids uncovers cell-type-specific and autism-associated exons

Y Yang, R Yang, B Kang, S Qian, X He, X Zhang - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Dysregulation of alternative splicing has been repeatedly associated with
neurodevelopmental disorders, but the extent of cell-type-specific splicing in human neural …

[HTML][HTML] A 25-year odyssey of genomic technology advances and structural variant discovery

D Porubsky, EE Eichler - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
This perspective focuses on advances in genome technology over the last 25 years and
their impact on germline variant discovery within the field of human genetics. The field has …

Species-specific FMRP regulation of RACK1 is critical for prenatal cortical development

M Shen, CL Sirois, Y Guo, M Li, Q Dong… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1 protein (FMRP) deficiency leads to fragile X
syndrome (FXS), an autism spectrum disorder. The role of FMRP in prenatal human brain …