New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications

OA Andreassen, GFL Hindley, O Frei… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric genetics has made substantial progress in the last decade, providing new
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders, and paving the way for precision …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and their relationship to genetic risk: current knowledge and future directions

N Robinson, SE Bergen - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe psychiatric disorders which result
from complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors. It is well-established that …

Genetic architecture of schizophrenia: a review of major advancements

SE Legge, ML Santoro, S Periyasamy… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with high heritability. Consortia efforts and
technological advancements have led to a substantial increase in knowledge of the genetic …

Polygenic inheritance, GWAS, polygenic risk scores, and the search for functional variants

DJM Crouch, WF Bodmer - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The reconciliation between Mendelian inheritance of discrete traits and the genetically
based correlation between relatives for quantitative traits was Fisher's infinitesimal model of …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical and empirical quantification of the accuracy of polygenic scores in ancestry divergent populations

Y Wang, J Guo, G Ni, J Yang, PM Visscher… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGS) have been widely used to predict disease risk using variants
identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To date, most GWAS have been …

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

Indonesia Schizophrenia Consortium… - Nature, 2022 - research.vu.nl
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60-80% 1, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

Predicting polygenic risk of psychiatric disorders

AR Martin, MJ Daly, EB Robinson, SE Hyman… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Genetics provides two major opportunities for understanding human disease—as a
transformative line of etiological inquiry and as a biomarker for heritable diseases. In …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

F Chen, X Wang, SK Jang, BC Quach… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) so far focus on European ancestry
and lack diversity. To overcome this limitation, we aggregated genome-wide association …

Shared heritability of human face and brain shape

S Naqvi, Y Sleyp, H Hoskens, K Indencleef… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Evidence from model organisms and clinical genetics suggests coordination between the
developing brain and face, but the role of this link in common genetic variation remains …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …