From basic science to clinical application of polygenic risk scores: a primer

NR Wray, T Lin, J Austin, JJ McGrath, IB Hickie… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are predictors of the genetic susceptibilities of
individuals to diseases. All individuals have DNA risk variants for all common diseases, but …

Could polygenic risk scores be useful in psychiatry?: a review

GK Murray, T Lin, J Austin, JJ McGrath, IB Hickie… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are predictors of the genetic susceptibility to
diseases, calculated for individuals as weighted counts of thousands of risk variants in which …

[HTML][HTML] Brain charts for the human lifespan

RAI Bethlehem, J Seidlitz, SR White, JW Vogel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past few decades, neuroimaging has become a ubiquitous tool in basic research
and clinical studies of the human brain. However, no reference standards currently exist 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) …

Discovery and implications of polygenicity of common diseases

PM Visscher, L Yengo, NJ Cox, NR Wray - Science, 2021 - science.org
The sequencing of the human genome has allowed the study of the genetic architecture of
common diseases: the number of genomic variants that contribute to risk of disease and …

[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 …

Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research

D Borsboom, AOJ Cramer, A Kalis - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 - cambridge.org
In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Shared molecular neuropathology across major psychiatric disorders parallels polygenic overlap

MJ Gandal, JR Haney, NN Parikshak, V Leppa… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The predisposition to neuropsychiatric disease involves a complex, polygenic, and
pleiotropic genetic architecture. However, little is known about how genetic variants impart …

Twelve years of GWAS discoveries for osteoporosis and related traits: advances, challenges and applications

X Zhu, W Bai, H Zheng - Bone research, 2021 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disease, affecting~ 200 million people around the world.
As a complex disease, osteoporosis is influenced by many factors, including diet (eg calcium …

Psychiatric genetics and the structure of psychopathology

JW Smoller, OA Andreassen, HJ Edenberg… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
For over a century, psychiatric disorders have been defined by expert opinion and clinical
observation. The modern DSM has relied on a consensus of experts to define categorical …