The broken Alzheimer's disease genome

CG Roque, H Phatnani, U Hengst - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
The complex pathobiology of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses significant
challenges to therapeutic and preventative interventions. Despite these difficulties …

Identification of drug repurposing candidates for the treatment of anxiety: a genetic approach

DJ Woodward, JG Thorp, W Akosile, JS Ong… - Psychiatry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders are a group of prevalent and heritable neuropsychiatric diseases. We
previously conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) which identified genomic …

Fallacies and Pitfalls in Genome-Wide Association Studies*

J Hecker, A Craig, A Hughes, J Neidich… - 2023 Guardians …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifying variants associated with
myocardial infarction was published over 20 years ago, GWASs have emerged as a …

How can we obtain truly translational mouse models to improve clinical outcomes in schizophrenia?

SJ Clapcote - Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting 0.7% of the world's population. Despite
over 50 years of schizophrenia drug identification and development, there have been no …

Stratifying early‐onset emotional disorders: using genetics to assess persistence in young people of European and South Asian ancestry

CA Dennison, J Martin, A Shakeshaft… - Journal of Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health problems in young
people. Currently, clinicians are advised to wait before initiating treatment for young people …

Biomarkers in Psychiatry: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

AL Teixeira, NP Rocha, M Berk - Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry: A Primer, 2023 - Springer
There are fundamental differences in the diagnostic process and the pathogenesis/
pathophysiology of mental disorders compared to other clinical areas that pose a challenge …

Association of maternal and paternal personality disorders with risk of mental disorders in children: A nationwide, register‐based cohort study of 1,406,965 children

ICT Gjøde, TM Laursen, AD Müller… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Knowledge of the association between parental personality disorders and
mental disorders in children is limited. To examine the association between parental …

Incorporating genetic similarity of auxiliary samples into eGene identification under the transfer learning framework

S Zhang, Z Jiang, P Zeng - Journal of Translational Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background The term eGene has been applied to define a gene whose expression level is
affected by at least one independent expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL). It is both …

The ethics of polygenic scores in psychiatry: minefield or opportunity for patient-centered psychiatry?

RHP Wouters, MZ van der Horst, CM Aalfs… - Psychiatric …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Recent advancements in psychiatric genetics have sparked a lively debate on the
opportunities and pitfalls of incorporating polygenic scores into clinical practice. Yet, several …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 obsessive-compulsive disorder associated loci

NI Strom, ZF Gerring, M Galimberti, D Yu… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects~ 1% of the population and exhibits a high
SNP-heritability, yet previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have provided …