Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

H Herrman, V Patel, C Kieling, M Berk, C Buchweitz… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

[PDF][PDF] The bidirectional relationship of depression and inflammation: double trouble

E Beurel, M Toups, CB Nemeroff - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Depression represents the number one cause of disability worldwide and is often fatal.
Inflammatory processes have been implicated in the pathophysiology of depression. It is …

Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in> 1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions

DF Levey, MB Stein, FR Wendt, GA Pathak… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder is the most common neuropsychiatric disorder, affecting 11% of
veterans. Here we report results of a large meta-analysis of depression using data from the …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts

ASF Kwong, RM Pearson, MJ Adams… - The British journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures are likely to have a marked
effect on mental health. It is important to use longitudinal data to improve inferences. AimsTo …

[HTML][HTML] Risk prediction of late-onset Alzheimer's disease implies an oligogenic architecture

Q Zhang, J Sidorenko, B Couvy-Duchesne… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic association studies have identified 44 common genome-wide significant risk loci for
late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). However, LOAD genetic architecture and prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

[HTML][HTML] Rare and common genetic determinants of metabolic individuality and their effects on human health

P Surendran, ID Stewart, VPW Au Yeung, M Pietzner… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Garrod's concept of 'chemical individuality'has contributed to comprehension of the
molecular origins of human diseases. Untargeted high-throughput metabolomic …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

CM Lewis, E Vassos - Genome medicine, 2020 - genomemedicine.biomedcentral …
Genome-wide association studies have shown unequivocally that common complex
disorders have a polygenic genetic architecture and have enabled researchers to identify …