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 …

Hidden role of gut microbiome dysbiosis in schizophrenia: Antipsychotics or psychobiotics as therapeutics?

N Munawar, K Ahsan, K Muhammad, A Ahmad… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a chronic, heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder that has complex
symptoms and uncertain etiology. Mounting evidence indicates the involvement of genetics …

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

CR Marshall, DP Howrigan, D Merico… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been strongly implicated in the genetic etiology of
schizophrenia (SCZ). However, genome-wide investigation of the contribution of CNV to risk …

Schizophrenia and the neurodevelopmental continuum: evidence from genomics

MJ Owen, MC O'Donovan - World Psychiatry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that disturbances occurring early in brain development contribute to the
pathogenesis of schizophrenia, often referred to as the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, has …

Oxidative stress-driven parvalbumin interneuron impairment as a common mechanism in models of schizophrenia

P Steullet, JH Cabungcal, J Coyle, M Didriksen… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Parvalbumin inhibitory interneurons (PVIs) are crucial for maintaining proper
excitatory/inhibitory balance and high-frequency neuronal synchronization. Their activity …

The contribution of rare variants to risk of schizophrenia in individuals with and without intellectual disability

T Singh, JTR Walters, M Johnstone, D Curtis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
By performing a meta-analysis of rare coding variants in whole-exome sequences from
4,133 schizophrenia cases and 9,274 controls, de novo mutations in 1,077 family trios, and …

Cognitive performance among carriers of pathogenic copy number variants: analysis of 152,000 UK Biobank subjects

KM Kendall, E Rees, V Escott-Price, M Einon… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The UK Biobank is a unique resource for biomedical research, with
extensive phenotypic and genetic data on half a million adults from the general population …

Rare variants in the genetic background modulate cognitive and developmental phenotypes in individuals carrying disease-associated variants

L Pizzo, M Jensen, A Polyak, JA Rosenfeld… - Genetics in …, 2019 - nature.com
Purpose To assess the contribution of rare variants in the genetic background toward
variability of neurodevelopmental phenotypes in individuals with rare copy-number variants …

[HTML][HTML] Novel findings from CNVs implicate inhibitory and excitatory signaling complexes in schizophrenia

AJ Pocklington, E Rees, JTR Walters, J Han… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
We sought to obtain novel insights into schizophrenia pathogenesis by exploiting the
association between the disorder and chromosomal copy number (CNV) burden. We …

Copy number variation in bipolar disorder

EK Green, E Rees, JTR Walters, KG Smith, L Forty… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Large (> 100 kb), rare (< 1% in the population) copy number variants (CNVs) have
been shown to confer risk for schizophrenia (SZ), but the findings for bipolar disorder (BD) …