What genes are differentially expressed in individuals with schizophrenia? A systematic review

AK Merikangas, M Shelly, A Knighton, N Kotler… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe, complex mental disorder characterized by a combination of
positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and impaired cognitive function. Schizophrenia is …

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 …

Integration of Alzheimer's disease genetics and myeloid genomics identifies disease risk regulatory elements and genes

G Novikova, M Kapoor, J Tcw, EM Abud… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 40 loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the causal variants, regulatory elements, genes and pathways …

Upper cortical layer–driven network impairment in schizophrenia

MY Batiuk, T Tyler, K Dragicevic, S Mei, R Rydbirk… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Schizophrenia is one of the most widespread and complex mental disorders. To
characterize the impact of schizophrenia, we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing …

Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

H Zhou, RL Kember, JD Deak, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Problematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-
related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity …

Analysis of the caudate nucleus transcriptome in individuals with schizophrenia highlights effects of antipsychotics and new risk genes

KJM Benjamin, Q Chen, AE Jaffe, JM Stolz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most studies of gene expression in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia have
focused on cortical regions, but subcortical nuclei such as the striatum are prominently …

Genetics of sexually dimorphic adipose distribution in humans

GT Hansen, DR Sobreira, ZT Weber, AG Thornburg… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity-associated morbidity is exacerbated by abdominal obesity, which can be measured
as the waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for the body mass index (WHRadjBMI). Here we identify …

Population-level variation in enhancer expression identifies disease mechanisms in the human brain

P Dong, GE Hoffman, P Apontes, J Bendl, S Rahman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Identification of risk variants for neuropsychiatric diseases within enhancers underscores the
importance of understanding population-level variation in enhancer function in the human …

Single-cell multi-cohort dissection of the schizophrenia transcriptome

WB Ruzicka, S Mohammadi, JF Fullard… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The complexity and heterogeneity of schizophrenia have hindered mechanistic elucidation
and the development of more effective therapies. Here, we performed single-cell dissection …

Neuroimmune transcriptome changes in patient brains of psychiatric and neurological disorders

Y Chen, J Dai, L Tang, T Mikhailova, Q Liang, M Li… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroinflammation has been implicated in multiple brain disorders but the extent and the
magnitude of change in immune-related genes (IRGs) across distinct brain disorders has not …