[HTML][HTML] Lessons learned from parsing genetic risk for schizophrenia into biological pathways

G Pergola, N Penzel, L Sportelli, A Bertolino - Biological Psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
The clinically heterogeneous presentation of schizophrenia is compounded by the
heterogeneity of risk factors and neurobiological correlates of the disorder. Genome-wide …

Consensus molecular environment of schizophrenia risk genes in coexpression networks shifting across age and brain regions

G Pergola, M Parihar, L Sportelli, R Bharadwaj… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental brain disorder whose genetic risk is associated with
shifting clinical phenomena across the life span. We investigated the convergence of …

[HTML][HTML] Network-wide risk convergence in gene co-expression identifies reproducible genetic hubs of schizophrenia risk

C Borcuk, M Parihar, L Sportelli, JE Kleinman, JH Shin… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The omnigenic model posits that genetic risk for traits with complex heritability involves
cumulative effects of peripheral genes on mechanistic" core genes," suggesting that in a …

Genetic correlates as a predictor of bariatric surgery outcomes after 1 year

PK Thanos, C Hanna, A Mihalkovic, A Hoffman… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study analyzed genetic risk assessments in patients undergoing bariatric surgery to
serve as a predictive factor for weight loss parameters 1 year after the operation. Thirty (30) …

[HTML][HTML] A miR-137–Related Biological Pathway of Risk for Schizophrenia Is Associated With Human Brain Emotion Processing

G Pergola, A Rampino, L Sportelli, CJ Borcuk… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background miR-137 is a microRNA involved in brain development, regulating
neurogenesis and neuronal maturation. Genome-wide association studies have implicated …

Transcriptomics and proteomics of projection neurons in a circuit linking hippocampus with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human brain

RA Bharadwaj, C Borcuk, GC Kikidis, L Sportelli… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
RNA-sequencing studies of brain tissue homogenates have shed light on the molecular
processes underlying schizophrenia (SCZ) but lack biological granularity at the cell type …

Dopamine and schizophrenia from bench to bedside: Discovery of a striatal co-expression risk gene set that predicts in vivo measures of striatal function

L Sportelli, DP Eisenberg, R Passiatore, E D'Ambrosio… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is characterized by a polygenic risk architecture implicating diverse
molecular pathways important for synaptic function. However, how polygenic risk funnels …

Diverse avenues of research support the transmethylation theory of psychosis: implications for neuroprotection

CL Miller - Exploration of Neuroprotective Therapy, 2024 - explorationpub.com
Transmethylation in the context of psychiatry has historically referred to the enzymatic
transfer of a methyl group from one biochemical to another, whose resulting function can …

Close Homolog of L1 (CHL1) and its role in the dopaminergic system: biochemical and behavioral consequences of CHL1 and dopamine receptor type 2 interaction

L Fernandes - 2023 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter essential to coordinate biochemical and behavioral
functions in the striatum by modulating dopamine receptor signaling, including the …

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