Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS

TE Faust, G Gunner, DP Schafer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Almost 60 years have passed since the initial discovery by Hubel and Wiesel that changes
in neuronal activity can elicit developmental rewiring of the central nervous system (CNS) …

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Association of psychiatric disorders with mortality among patients with COVID-19

K Nemani, C Li, M Olfson, EM Blessing… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To date, the association of psychiatric diagnoses with mortality in patients
infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has not been evaluated. Objective To …

Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder

HR Willsey, AJ Willsey, B Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
More than a hundred genes have been identified that, when disrupted, impart large risk for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Current knowledge about the encoded proteins—although …

[HTML][HTML] Cytokine alterations in schizophrenia: an updated review

S Momtazmanesh, A Zare-Shahabadi… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia, a multisystem disorder with an unknown etiology, is associated with several
immune dysfunctions, including abnormal levels of circulating cytokines. In this review, we …

Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

A Sekar, AR Bialas, H De Rivera, A Davis… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms.
Schizophrenia's strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the …

[HTML][HTML] From gut dysbiosis to altered brain function and mental illness: mechanisms and pathways

GB Rogers, DJ Keating, RL Young, ML Wong… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
The human body hosts an enormous abundance and diversity of microbes, which perform a
range of essential and beneficial functions. Our appreciation of the importance of these …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 30 new susceptibility loci for schizophrenia

Z Li, J Chen, H Yu, L He, Y Xu, D Zhang, Q Yi, C Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with replication in 36,180 Chinese
individuals and performed further transancestry meta-analyses with data from the Psychiatry …

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

C Pantelis, GN Papadimitriou, S Papiol… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of
alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] The inflamed brain in schizophrenia: the convergence of genetic and environmental risk factors that lead to uncontrolled neuroinflammation

AL Comer, M Carrier, MÈ Tremblay… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is a disorder with a heterogeneous etiology involving complex interplay
between genetic and environmental risk factors. The immune system is now known to play …