Genome-wide association studies of schizophrenia: does bigger lead to better results?

SE Bergen, TL Petryshen - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Identifying the genetic underpinnings of complex diseases offers insight into the etiological
mechanisms leading to manifestation of the disease. New and more effective treatments for …

Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

MC O'donovan, N Craddock, N Norton, H Williams… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We carried out a genome-wide association study of schizophrenia (479 cases, 2,937
controls) and tested loci with P< 10− 5 in up to 16,726 additional subjects. Of 12 loci …

Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

A Sekar, AR Bialas, H De Rivera, A Davis… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms.
Schizophrenia's strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the …

Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant

C Esslinger, H Walter, P Kirsch, S Erk, K Schnell… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a devastating, highly heritable brain disorder of unknown etiology.
Recently, the first common genetic variant associated on a genome-wide level with …

De novo gene mutations highlight patterns of genetic and neural complexity in schizophrenia

B Xu, I Ionita-Laza, JL Roos, B Boone, S Woodrick… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
To evaluate evidence for de novo etiologies in schizophrenia, we sequenced at high
coverage the exomes of families recruited from two populations with distinct demographic …

Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis

AD Grotzinger, TT Mallard, WA Akingbuwa, HF Ip… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We interrogate the joint genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at
biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. We identify four …

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 …

Synaptic dysregulation in a human iPS cell model of mental disorders

Z Wen, HN Nguyen, Z Guo, MA Lalli, X Wang, Y Su… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Dysregulated neurodevelopment with altered structural and functional connectivity is
believed to underlie many neuropsychiatric disorders, and 'a disease of synapses' is the …

Large-scale genomics unveils the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders

J Gratten, NR Wray, MC Keller, PM Visscher - Nature neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
Family study results are consistent with genetic effects making substantial contributions to
risk of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, yet robust identification of specific …

Schizophrenia: diverse approaches to a complex disease

A Sawa, SH Snyder - Science, 2002 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects 1% of the population. Despite
intensive study, its molecular etiology remains enigmatic. Like many common diseases …