Mitochondrial involvement in psychiatric disorders

L Shao, MV Martin, SJ Watson, A Schatzberg… - Annals of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Recent findings of mitochondrial abnormalities in brains from subjects with neurological
disorders have led to a renewed search for mitochondrial abnormalities in psychiatric …

Target identification for CNS diseases by transcriptional profiling

CA Altar, MP Vawter, SD Ginsberg - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2009 - nature.com
Gene expression changes in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, and gene
responses to therapeutic drugs, provide new ways to identify central nervous system (CNS) …

Deficient hippocampal neuron expression of proteasome, ubiquitin, and mitochondrial genes in multiple schizophrenia cohorts

CA Altar, LW Jurata, V Charles, A Lemire, P Liu… - Biological …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Hippocampal dentate granule neurons are altered in schizophrenia, but it
is unknown if their gene expressions change in schizophrenia or other psychiatric diseases …

Experimental comparison and cross-validation of the Affymetrix and Illumina gene expression analysis platforms

M Barnes, J Freudenberg, S Thompson… - Nucleic acids …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The growth in popularity of RNA expression microarrays has been accompanied by
concerns about the reliability of the data especially when comparing between different …

Identifying blood biomarkers for mood disorders using convergent functional genomics

H Le-Niculescu, SM Kurian, N Yehyawi, C Dike… - Molecular …, 2009 - nature.com
There are to date no objective clinical laboratory blood tests for mood disorders. The current
reliance on patient self-report of symptom severity and on the clinicians' impression is a rate …

Convergent functional genomics of genome‐wide association data for bipolar disorder: Comprehensive identification of candidate genes, pathways and mechanisms

H Le‐Niculescu, SD Patel, M Bhat… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Given the mounting convergent evidence implicating many more genes in complex
disorders such as bipolar disorder than the small number identified unambiguously by the …

Shared gene expression alterations in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

L Shao, MP Vawter - Biological psychiatry, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder together affect approximately 2.5% of
the world population, and their etiologies are thought to involve multiple genetic variants and …

Mitochondrial-related gene expression changes are sensitive to agonal-pH state: implications for brain disorders

MP Vawter, H Tomita, F Meng, B Bolstad, J Li… - Molecular …, 2006 - nature.com
Mitochondrial defects in gene expression have been implicated in the pathophysiology of
bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. We have now contrasted control brains with low pH …

Towards understanding and predicting suicidality in women: biomarkers and clinical risk assessment

DF Levey, EM Niculescu, H Le-Niculescu… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Women are under-represented in research on suicidality to date. Although women have a
lower rate of suicide completion than men, due in part to the less-violent methods used, they …

Methodological considerations for gene expression profiling of human brain

M Atz, D Walsh, P Cartagena, J Li, S Evans… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2007 - Elsevier
Gene expression profiles of postmortem brain tissue represent important resources for
understanding neuropsychiatric illnesses. The impact (s) of quality covariables on the …