The relationship between cannabis use, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder: a genetically informed study

W Cheng, N Parker, N Karadag, E Koch… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The relationship between psychotic disorders and cannabis use is heavily
debated. Shared underlying genetic risk is one potential explanation. We investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic relationships between brain structure and schizophrenia

EM Stauffer, RAI Bethlehem, L Dorfschmidt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic risks for schizophrenia are theoretically mediated by genetic effects on brain
structure but it has been unclear which genes are associated with both schizophrenia and …

Psychiatric disorders and brain white matter exhibit genetic overlap implicating developmental and neural cell biology

N Parker, W Cheng, GFL Hindley, P Parekh… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Improved understanding of the shared genetic architecture between psychiatric disorders
and brain white matter may provide mechanistic insights for observed phenotypic …

Shared genetic loci between schizophrenia and white blood cell counts suggest genetically determined systemic immune abnormalities

NE Steen, Z Rahman, A Szabo… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Immune mechanisms are indicated in schizophrenia (SCZ). Recent genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants associated with SCZ and …

[HTML][HTML] On the interpretation of transcriptome-wide association studies

C de Leeuw, J Werme, JE Savage, WJ Peyrot… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) aim to detect relationships between gene
expression and a phenotype, and are commonly used for secondary analysis of genome …

Shared Genetic Architecture between Parkinson's Disease and Brain Structural Phenotypes

D Ma, S Li, J Shi, Y Liang, Z Hu, X Hao, M Li… - Movement …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have consistently demonstrated
brain structure abnormalities, indicating the presence of shared etiological and pathological …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of cerebellar white matter microstructure and genetic overlap with common brain disorders

BS Wu, YJ Ge, W Zhang, SD Chen, ST Xiang… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The cerebellum is recognized as being involved in neurocognitive and motor
functions with communication with extra-cerebellar regions relying on the white matter …

Temporal changes in brain morphology related to inflammation and schizophrenia: an omnigenic Mendelian randomization study

Y Liu, H Ren, Y Zhang, W Deng, X Ma, L Zhao… - Psychological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
BackgroundOver the past several decades, more research focuses have been made on the
inflammation/immune hypothesis of schizophrenia. Building upon synaptic plasticity …

[HTML][HTML] Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia interactomes contain temporally distinct gene clusters underlying comorbid mechanisms and unique disease …

KB Karunakaran, S Jain, SK Brahmachari… - Schizophrenia, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies suggest significant overlaps in Parkinson's disease (PD)
and schizophrenia (SZ) risks, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. The protein …

[HTML][HTML] Abundant pleiotropy across neuroimaging modalities identified through a multivariate genome-wide association study

EP Tissink, AA Shadrin, D van der Meer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic pleiotropy is abundant across spatially distributed brain characteristics derived from
one neuroimaging modality (eg structural, functional or diffusion magnetic resonance …