Developmental and genetic regulation of the human cortex transcriptome illuminate schizophrenia pathogenesis

AE Jaffe, RE Straub, JH Shin, R Tao, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified 108 schizophrenia risk loci, but biological
mechanisms for individual loci are largely unknown. Using developmental, genetic and …

A transcriptome-wide association study implicates specific pre-and post-synaptic abnormalities in schizophrenia

LS Hall, CW Medway, O Pain… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is a complex highly heritable disorder. Genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) have identified multiple loci that influence the risk of developing schizophrenia …

[PDF][PDF] Regional heterogeneity in gene expression, regulation, and coherence in the frontal cortex and hippocampus across development and schizophrenia

L Collado-Torres, EE Burke, A Peterson, JH Shin… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The hippocampus formation, although prominently implicated in schizophrenia
pathogenesis, has been overlooked in large-scale genomics efforts in the schizophrenic …

A role for noncoding variation in schizophrenia

P Roussos, AC Mitchell, G Voloudakis, JF Fullard… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
A large portion of common variant loci associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia reside
within noncoding sequence of unknown function. Here, we demonstrate promoter and …

[PDF][PDF] Phenotypic landscape of schizophrenia-associated genes defines candidates and their shared functions

SB Thyme, LM Pieper, EH Li, S Pandey, Y Wang… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genomic studies have identified hundreds of candidate genes near loci associated with risk
for schizophrenia. To define candidates and their functions, we mutated zebrafish orthologs …

Functional genomics reveal gene regulatory mechanisms underlying schizophrenia risk

Y Huo, S Li, J Liu, X Li, XJ Luo - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified over 180 independent
schizophrenia risk loci. Nevertheless, how the risk variants in the reported loci confer …

Boosting the power of schizophrenia genetics by leveraging new statistical tools

OA Andreassen, WK Thompson… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of gene variants
associated with schizophrenia, but these variants explain only a small portion of the …

Consensus molecular environment of schizophrenia risk genes in coexpression networks shifting across age and brain regions

G Pergola, M Parihar, L Sportelli, R Bharadwaj… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental brain disorder whose genetic risk is associated with
shifting clinical phenomena across the life span. We investigated the convergence of …

Common schizophrenia risk variants are enriched in open chromatin regions of human glutamatergic neurons

ME Hauberg, J Creus-Muncunill, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chromatin landscape of human brain cells encompasses key information to
understanding brain function. Here we use ATAC-seq to profile the chromatin structure in …

Evaluation of chromatin accessibility in prefrontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia

J Bryois, ME Garrett, L Song, A Safi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia genome-wide association studies have identified> 150 regions of the
genome associated with disease risk, yet there is little evidence that coding mutations …