Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review

S Barakat, SA McLean, E Bryant, A Le, P Marks… - Journal of eating …, 2023 - Springer
Background Risk factors represent a range of complex variables associated with the onset,
development, and course of eating disorders. Understanding these risk factors is vital for the …

From gut microbiota to host appetite: gut microbiota-derived metabolites as key regulators

H Han, B Yi, R Zhong, M Wang, S Zhang, J Ma, Y Yin… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Feelings of hunger and satiety are the key determinants for maintaining the life of humans
and animals. Disturbed appetite control may disrupt the metabolic health of the host and …

[HTML][HTML] The gut microbiota contributes to the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa in humans and mice

Y Fan, RK Støving, S Berreira Ibraim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder with a high mortality. About 95% of cases are
women and it has a population prevalence of about 1%, but evidence-based treatment is …

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 …

Genome-wide analysis of 53,400 people with irritable bowel syndrome highlights shared genetic pathways with mood and anxiety disorders

C Eijsbouts, T Zheng, NA Kennedy, F Bonfiglio… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) results from disordered brain–gut interactions. Identifying
susceptibility genes could highlight the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. We …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

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 …

The genetic architecture of depression in individuals of East Asian ancestry: a genome-wide association study

O Giannakopoulou, K Lin, X Meng, MH Su… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Most previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of depression have
used data from individuals of European descent. This limits the understanding of the …

Gut microbiota and psychiatric disorders: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

JJ Ni, Q Xu, SS Yan, BX Han, H Zhang, XT Wei… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Evidence supports the observational associations of gut microbiota with a variety of
psychiatric disorders, but the causal nature of such associations remains obscure. Aiming to …

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and risk of psychiatric disorders

J Guo, K Yu, SS Dong, S Yao, Y Rong, H Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Observational studies have reported the correlations between brain imaging-derived
phenotypes (IDPs) and psychiatric disorders; however, whether the relationships are causal …