Depression and obesity: evidence of shared biological mechanisms

Y Milaneschi, WK Simmons, EFC van Rossum… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Depression and obesity are common conditions with major public health implications that
tend to co-occur within individuals. The relationship between these conditions is …

Genetics of resilience: Implications from genome‐wide association studies and candidate genes of the stress response system in posttraumatic stress disorder and …

S Maul, I Giegling, C Fabbri, F Corponi… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Resilience is the ability to cope with critical situations through the use of personal and
socially mediated resources. Since a lack of resilience increases the risk of developing …

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 association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

NR Wray, S Ripke, M Mattheisen, M Trzaskowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

A concerted neuron–astrocyte program declines in ageing and schizophrenia

E Ling, J Nemesh, M Goldman, N Kamitaki, N Reed… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in
cellular terms. Here we describe a relationship between people's cortical neurons and …

Long neural genes harbor recurrent DNA break clusters in neural stem/progenitor cells

PC Wei, AN Chang, J Kao, Z Du, RM Meyers, FW Alt… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by non-homologous end joining is critical for
neural development, and brain cells frequently contain somatic genomic variations that …

Clinical, serological and genetic predictors of response to immunotherapy in anti-IgLON5 disease

T Grüter, FE Möllers, A Tietz, J Dargvainiene, N Melzer… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Anti-IgLON5 disease is a newly defined clinical entity characterized by a progressive course
with high disability and mortality rate. While precise pathogenetic mechanisms remain …

A novel non-rapid-eye movement and rapid-eye-movement parasomnia with sleep breathing disorder associated with antibodies to IgLON5: a case series …

L Sabater, C Gaig, E Gelpi, L Bataller… - The Lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Autoimmunity might be associated with or implicated in sleep and
neurodegenerative disorders. We aimed to describe the features of a novel neurological …

The transcriptional regulators TAZ and YAP direct transforming growth factor β-induced tumorigenic phenotypes in breast cancer cells*♦

SE Hiemer, AD Szymaniak, X Varelas - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014 - ASBMB
Uncontrolled transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) signaling promotes aggressive metastatic
properties in late-stage breast cancers. However, how TGFβ-mediated cues are directed to …

[HTML][HTML] HDAC4 governs a transcriptional program essential for synaptic plasticity and memory

R Sando, N Gounko, S Pieraut, L Liao, J Yates… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Neuronal activity influences genes involved in circuit development and information
processing. However, the molecular basis of this process remains poorly understood. We …