Genetic architecture of schizophrenia: a review of major advancements

SE Legge, ML Santoro, S Periyasamy… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with high heritability. Consortia efforts and
technological advancements have led to a substantial increase in knowledge of the genetic …

A systematic review and analysis of the use of polygenic scores in pharmacogenomics

D Johnson, MKAP Wilke, SM Lyle… - Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polygenic scores (PGSs) have emerged as promising tools for complex trait risk prediction.
The application of these scores to pharmacogenomics provides new opportunities to …

[HTML][HTML] Grey and white matter microstructure is associated with polygenic risk for schizophrenia

EM Stauffer, RAI Bethlehem, V Warrier, GK Murray… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent discovery of approximately 270 common genetic variants associated with
schizophrenia has enabled polygenic risk scores (PRS) to be measured in the population …

[HTML][HTML] A cross-disorder PRS-pheWAS of 5 major psychiatric disorders in UK Biobank

B Leppert, LAC Millard, L Riglin, G Davey Smith… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable and associated with a wide variety of social
adversity and physical health problems. Using genetic liability (rather than phenotypic …

The effect of polygenic risk scores for major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia on morphological brain measures: a systematic review of the …

G Cattarinussi, G Delvecchio, F Sambataro… - Journal of affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia
(SCZ) share clinical features and genetic bases. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Magical thinking in individuals with high polygenic risk for schizophrenia but no non-affective psychoses—a general population study

A Saarinen, LP Lyytikäinen, J Hietala, H Dobewall… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
A strong genetic background for psychoses is well-established. Most individuals with a high
genetic risk for schizophrenia, however, do not develop the disorder. We investigated …

Polygenic risk for schizophrenia and schizotypal traits in non-clinical subjects

I Nenadić, T Meller, S Schmitt, F Stein… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSchizotypy is a putative risk phenotype for psychosis liability, but the overlap of
its genetic architecture with schizophrenia is poorly understood. MethodsWe tested the …

Linking polygenic risk of schizophrenia to variation in magnetic resonance imaging brain measures: a comprehensive systematic review

H Jameei, D Rakesh, A Zalesky, MJ Cairns… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background and hypothesis Schizophrenia is highly heritable, with a polygenic effect of
many genes conferring risk. Evidence on whether cumulative risk also predicts alterations in …

The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature

R Tandon, H Nasrallah, S Akbarian… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
With new data about different aspects of schizophrenia being continually generated, it
becomes necessary to periodically revisit exactly what we know. Along with a need to review …