Could polygenic risk scores be useful in psychiatry?: a review

GK Murray, T Lin, J Austin, JJ McGrath, IB Hickie… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are predictors of the genetic susceptibility to
diseases, calculated for individuals as weighted counts of thousands of risk variants in which …

Pleiotropy and cross-disorder genetics among psychiatric disorders

PH Lee, YCA Feng, JW Smoller - Biological psychiatry, 2021 - Elsevier
Genome-wide analyses of common and rare genetic variations have documented the
heritability of major psychiatric disorders, established their highly polygenic genetic …

Identification of shared and differentiating genetic architecture for autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and case subgroups

M Mattheisen, J Grove, TD Als, J Martin, G Voloudakis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are
highly heritable neurodevelopmental conditions, with considerable overlap in their genetic …

Shared genetic risk factors and causal association between psoriasis and coronary artery disease

MT Patrick, Q Li, R Wasikowski, N Mehta… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Psoriasis and coronary artery disease (CAD) are related comorbidities that are well
established, but whether a genetic basis underlies this is not well studied. We apply trans …

Investigating the shared genetic architecture between multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel diseases

Y Yang, H Musco, S Simpson-Yap, Z Zhu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
An epidemiological association between multiple sclerosis (MS) and inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) is well established, but whether this reflects a shared genetic aetiology, and …

Genetic estimates of correlation and causality between blood-based biomarkers and psychiatric disorders

WR Reay, DJ Kiltschewskij, MP Geaghan, JR Atkins… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
There is a long-standing interest in exploring the relationship between blood-based
biomarkers and psychiatric disorders, despite their causal role being difficult to resolve in …

Phenomenology, epidemiology and aetiology of postpartum psychosis: a review

A Perry, K Gordon-Smith, L Jones, I Jones - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Postpartum psychoses are a severe form of postnatal mood disorders, affecting 1–2 in every
1000 deliveries. These episodes typically present as acute mania or depression with …

The contribution of copy number variants to psychiatric symptoms and cognitive ability

J Mollon, L Almasy, S Jacquemont, DC Glahn - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) are deletions and duplications of DNA sequence. The most
frequently studied CNVs, which are described in this review, are recurrent CNVs that occur …

Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS

WJ Peyrot, AL Price - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are highly genetically correlated, but little research has been
conducted on the genetic differences between disorders. We developed a new method …

Toward generalizable and transdiagnostic tools for psychosis prediction: an independent validation and improvement of the NAPLS-2 risk calculator in the multisite …

N Koutsouleris, M Worthington, DB Dwyer… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Transition to psychosis is among the most adverse outcomes of clinical high-
risk (CHR) syndromes encompassing ultra-high risk (UHR) and basic symptom states …