Molecular pathways of major depressive disorder converge on the synapse

GR Fries, VA Saldana, J Finnstein, T Rein - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric disease of still poorly understood
molecular etiology. Extensive studies at different molecular levels point to a high complexity …

Getting to the cores of autism

LM Iakoucheva, AR Muotri, J Sebat - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is itself a diverse allelic
spectrum that consists of rare de novo or inherited variants in hundreds of genes and …

Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes

X Zhou, P Feliciano, C Shu, T Wang, I Astrovskaya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To capture the full spectrum of genetic risk for autism, we performed a two-stage analysis of
rare de novo and inherited coding variants in 42,607 autism cases, including 35,130 new …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

DM Howard, MJ Adams, TK Clarke, JD Hafferty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia

NG Skene, J Bryois, TE Bakken, G Breen, JJ Crowley… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
With few exceptions, the marked advances in knowledge about the genetic basis of
schizophrenia have not converged on findings that can be confidently used for precise …

Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia

G Genovese, M Fromer, EA Stahl, DM Ruderfer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
By analyzing the exomes of 12,332 unrelated Swedish individuals, including 4,877
individuals affected with schizophrenia, in ways informed by exome sequences from 45,376 …

[HTML][HTML] iCLIP: protein–RNA interactions at nucleotide resolution

I Huppertz, J Attig, A D'Ambrogio, LE Easton, CR Sibley… - Methods, 2014 - Elsevier
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are key players in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene
expression. Precise knowledge about their binding sites is therefore critical to unravel their …

Genome-wide analysis of over 106 000 individuals identifies 9 neuroticism-associated loci

DJ Smith, V Escott-Price, G Davies, MES Bailey… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Neuroticism is a personality trait of fundamental importance for psychological well-being and
public health. It is strongly associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) and several …

Molecular features driving cellular complexity of human brain evolution

E Caglayan, F Ayhan, Y Liu, RM Vollmer, E Oh… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Human-specific genomic changes contribute to the unique functionalities of the human
brain,,,–. The cellular heterogeneity of the human brain, and the complex regulation of gene …

RNA-binding proteins balance brain function in health and disease

R Schieweck, J Ninkovic… - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Posttranscriptional gene expression including splicing, RNA transport, translation, and RNA
decay provides an important regulatory layer in many if not all molecular pathways …