Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations

D Liu, D Meyer, B Fennessy, C Feng, E Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a chronic mental illness and among the most debilitating conditions
encountered in medical practice. A recent landmark SCZ study of the protein-coding regions …

The contribution of rare variants to risk of schizophrenia in individuals with and without intellectual disability

T Singh, JTR Walters, M Johnstone, D Curtis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
By performing a meta-analysis of rare coding variants in whole-exome sequences from
4,133 schizophrenia cases and 9,274 controls, de novo mutations in 1,077 family trios, and …

A comprehensive family-based replication study of schizophrenia genes

KA Aberg, Y Liu, J Bukszár, JL McClay… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a devastating psychiatric condition. Identifying the
specific genetic variants and pathways that increase susceptibility to SCZ is critical to …

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 …

High-impact rare genetic variants in severe schizophrenia

AW Zoghbi, RS Dhindsa, TE Goldberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Extreme phenotype sequencing has led to the identification of high-impact rare genetic
variants for many complex disorders but has not been applied to studies of severe …

Genetic studies of schizophrenia: an update

J Chen, F Cao, L Liu, L Wang, X Chen - Neuroscience bulletin, 2015 - Springer
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a complex and heterogeneous mental disorder that affects about 1%
of global population. In recent years, considerable progress has been made in genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Exome sequencing followed by large-scale genotyping suggests a limited role for moderately rare risk factors of strong effect in schizophrenia

AC Need, JP McEvoy, M Gennarelli, EL Heinzen… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with strong heritability and marked
heterogeneity in symptoms, course, and treatment response. There is strong interest in …

Genome sequencing broadens the range of contributing variants with clinical implications in schizophrenia

BA Mojarad, Y Yin, R Manshaei, I Backstrom… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
The range of genetic variation with potential clinical implications in schizophrenia, beyond
rare copy number variants (CNVs), remains uncertain. We therefore analyzed genome …

Exome sequencing in schizophrenia-affected parent–offspring trios reveals risk conferred by protein-coding de novo mutations

DP Howrigan, SA Rose, KE Samocha, M Fromer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Protein-coding de novo mutations (DNMs) are significant risk factors in many
neurodevelopmental disorders, whereas schizophrenia (SCZ) risk associated with DNMs …

Genome-wide association study detected novel susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and shared trans-populations/diseases genetic effect

M Ikeda, A Takahashi, Y Kamatani… - Schizophrenia …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified> 100 susceptibility loci for
schizophrenia (SCZ) and demonstrated that SCZ is a polygenic disorder determined by …