Alternative splicing as a regulator of development and tissue identity

FE Baralle, J Giudice - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Alternative splicing of eukaryotic transcripts is a mechanism that enables cells to generate
vast protein diversity from a limited number of genes. The mechanisms and outcomes of …

[HTML][HTML] Defining the genetic, genomic, cellular, and diagnostic architectures of psychiatric disorders

PF Sullivan, DH Geschwind - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Studies of the genetics of psychiatric disorders have become one of the most exciting and
fast-moving areas in human genetics. A decade ago, there were few reproducible findings …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

DM Howard, MJ Adams, TK Clarke, JD Hafferty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

MJ Gandal, P Zhang, E Hadjimichael, RL Walker… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our understanding of the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and bipolar disorder (BD) …

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

AF Pardiñas, P Holmans, AJ Pocklington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics

L de la Torre-Ubieta, H Won, JL Stein… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Progress in understanding the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has
fueled remarkable advances in our understanding of its potential neurobiological …

Predicting the sequence specificities of DNA-and RNA-binding proteins by deep learning

B Alipanahi, A Delong, MT Weirauch, BJ Frey - Nature biotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Knowing the sequence specificities of DNA-and RNA-binding proteins is essential for
developing models of the regulatory processes in biological systems and for identifying …

A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

D Ray, H Kazan, KB Cook, MT Weirauch… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins are key regulators of gene expression, yet only a small fraction have
been functionally characterized. Here we report a systematic analysis of the RNA motifs …

A highly conserved program of neuronal microexons is misregulated in autistic brains

M Irimia, RJ Weatheritt, JD Ellis, NN Parikshak… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Alternative splicing (AS) generates vast transcriptomic and proteomic complexity. However,
which of the myriad of detected AS events provide important biological functions is not well …