[PDF][PDF] 15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic basis of major depressive disorder

J Flint - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
The genetic dissection of major depressive disorder (MDD) ranks as one of the success
stories of psychiatric genetics, with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identifying …

New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications

OA Andreassen, GFL Hindley, O Frei… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric genetics has made substantial progress in the last decade, providing new
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders, and paving the way for precision …

A single-cell transcriptome atlas of glial diversity in the human hippocampus across the postnatal lifespan

Y Su, Y Zhou, ML Bennett, S Li, M Carceles-Cordon… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The molecular diversity of glia in the human hippocampus and their temporal dynamics over
the lifespan remain largely unknown. Here, we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing …

Behavioural genetics methods

EA Willoughby, TJC Polderman… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
The question of why people show individual differences in their behaviours and capacities
has intrigued researchers for centuries. Behaviour genetics offers us various methods to …

[HTML][HTML] The brain-gut-microbiota interplay in depression: A key to design innovative therapeutic approaches

A Varesi, LIM Campagnoli, S Chirumbolo… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Depression is the most prevalent mental disorder in the world associated with huge socio-
economic consequences. While depressive-related symptoms are well known, the …

[PDF][PDF] Genotyping and population characteristics of the China Kadoorie Biobank

RG Walters, IY Millwood, K Lin, DS Valle, P McDonnell… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) is a population-based prospective cohort of>
512,000 adults recruited from 2004 to 2008 from 10 geographically diverse regions across …

Ten challenges for clinical translation in psychiatric genetics

EM Derks, JG Thorp, ZF Gerring - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of robust genetic associations
underlying psychiatric disorders and provided important biological insights into disease …

[HTML][HTML] Major depressive disorder: existing hypotheses about pathophysiological mechanisms and new genetic findings

M Kamran, F Bibi, A ur. Rehman, DW Morris - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common mental disorder generally characterized by
symptoms associated with mood, pleasure and effectiveness in daily life activities. MDD is …

Growing placebo response in TMS treatment for depression: a meta-analysis of 27-year randomized sham-controlled trials

Y Xu, Y Zhang, D Zhao, Y Tian, TF Yuan - Nature mental health, 2023 - nature.com
This meta-analysis investigated placebo responses in repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation treatment for depression, an area with limited systematic analysis. The initial …