Discovery of shared genomic loci using the conditional false discovery rate approach

OB Smeland, O Frei, A Shadrin, K O'Connell, CC Fan… - Human genetics, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, genome-wide association study (GWAS) sample sizes have become larger,
the statistical power has improved and thousands of trait-associated variants have been …

Risk of dementia in bipolar disorder and the interplay of lithium: a systematic review and meta‐analyses

J Velosa, A Delgado, E Finger, M Berk… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To assess whether bipolar disorder (BD) increases the rate of dementia and
whether lithium is related to a lower risk of dementia in BD. Methods A total of 10 studies …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis and fine-mapping in Alzheimer's disease

J Lake, C Warly Solsberg, JJ Kim, J Acosta-Uribe… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease are predominantly carried
out in European ancestry individuals despite the known variation in genetic architecture and …

Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways

PP Zandi, AE Jaffe, FS Goes, EE Burke… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent genetic studies have identified variants associated with bipolar disorder (BD), but it
remains unclear how brain gene expression is altered in BD and how genetic risk for BD …

Genome-wide association of polygenic risk extremes for Alzheimer's disease in the UK Biobank

C Gouveia, E Gibbons, N Dehghani, J Eapen… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In just over a decade, advances in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have offered
an approach to stratify individuals based on genetic risk for disease. Using recent …

Genetic contributions to bipolar disorder: current status and future directions

KS O'Connell, BJ Coombes - Psychological Medicine, 2021 - cambridge.org
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly heritable mental disorder and is estimated to affect about 50
million people worldwide. Our understanding of the genetic etiology of BD has greatly …

Identification of hub genes and key pathways associated with bipolar disorder based on weighted gene co-expression network analysis

Y Liu, HY Gu, J Zhu, YM Niu, C Zhang… - Frontiers in physiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex mental disorder with high mortality and disability rates
worldwide; however, research on its pathogenesis and diagnostic methods remains limited …

Identification of novel genomic risk loci shared between common epilepsies and psychiatric disorders

N Karadag, AA Shadrin, KS O'Connell, GFL Hindley… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Psychiatric disorders and common epilepsies are heritable disorders with a high comorbidity
and overlapping symptoms. However, the causative mechanisms underlying this …

Large epigenome-wide association study of childhood ADHD identifies peripheral DNA methylation associated with disease and polygenic risk burden

MA Mooney, P Ryabinin, B Wilmot, P Bhatt… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Epigenetic variation in peripheral tissues is being widely studied as a molecular biomarker
of complex disease and disease-related exposures. To date, few studies have examined …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-wide genome-wide colocalization study for integrating genetics, transcriptomics and brain morphometry in Alzheimer's disease

J Bao, J Wen, Z Wen, S Yang, Y Cui, Z Yang, G Erus… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases.
However, the AD mechanism has not yet been fully elucidated to date, hindering the …