Determining the role of microRNAs in psychiatric disorders

O Issler, A Chen - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Recent studies have revealed that patients with psychiatric disorders have altered
microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles in the circulation and brain. Furthermore, animal …

Epigenetic modifications in schizophrenia and related disorders: molecular scars of environmental exposures and source of phenotypic variability

J Richetto, U Meyer - Biological Psychiatry, 2021 - Elsevier
Epigenetic modifications are increasingly recognized to play a role in the etiology and
pathophysiology of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders with developmental …

MiR-137: an important player in neural development and neoplastic transformation

E Mahmoudi, MJ Cairns - Molecular psychiatry, 2017 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent an important class of small regulatory RNAs that control
gene expression posttranscriptionally by targeting mRNAs for degradation or translation …

DNA methylation and schizophrenia: current literature and future perspective

T Magwai, KB Shangase, FO Oginga, B Chiliza… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by dissociation of thoughts, idea,
identity, and emotions. It has no central pathophysiological mechanism and precise …

Dysregulation of miRNA-9 in a subset of schizophrenia patient-derived neural progenitor cells

A Topol, S Zhu, BJ Hartley, J English, ME Hauberg… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Converging evidence indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) may contribute to disease risk for
schizophrenia (SZ). We show that microRNA-9 (miR-9) is abundantly expressed in control …

MicroRNA-137 controls AMPA-receptor-mediated transmission and mGluR-dependent LTD

NFMO Loohuis, W Ba, PH Stoerchel, A Kos, A Jager… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Mutations affecting the levels of microRNA miR-137 are associated with intellectual disability
and schizophrenia. However, the pathophysiological role of miR-137 remains poorly …

A rare functional noncoding variant at the GWAS-implicated MIR137/MIR2682 locus might confer risk to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

J Duan, J Shi, A Fiorentino, C Leites, X Chen… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Schizophrenia (SZ) genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified common risk
variants in> 100 susceptibility loci; however, the contribution of rare variants at these loci …

Genetics of schizophrenia: historical insights and prevailing evidence

J Van de Leemput, JL Hess, SJ Glatt, MT Tsuang - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Schizophrenia's (SZ's) heritability and familial transmission have been known for
several decades; however, despite the clear evidence for a genetic component, it has been …

An increased copy number of glycine decarboxylase (GLDC) associated with psychosis reduces extracellular glycine and impairs NMDA receptor function

M Kambali, Y Li, P Unichenko, JA Feria Pliego… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Glycine is an obligatory co-agonist at excitatory NMDA receptors in the brain, especially in
the dentate gyrus, which has been postulated to be crucial for the development of psychotic …

MIR137 schizophrenia-associated locus controls synaptic function by regulating synaptogenesis, synapse maturation and synaptic transmission

E He, MAG Lozano, S Stringer… - Human molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The MIR137 locus is a replicated genetic risk factor for schizophrenia. The risk-associated
allele is reported to increase miR-137 expression and miR-137 overexpression alters …