Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

Nature genetics, 2011 - nature.com
We examined the role of common genetic variation in schizophrenia in a genome-wide
association study of substantial size: a stage 1 discovery sample of 21,856 individuals of …

Pathophysiologically based treatment interventions in schizophrenia

DA Lewis, G Gonzalez-Burgos - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
Identifying the molecular alterations that underlie the pathophysiology of critical clinical
features of schizophrenia is an essential step in the rational development of new therapeutic …

Profiling gene expression in the human dentate gyrus granule cell layer reveals insights into schizophrenia and its genetic risk

AE Jaffe, DJ Hoeppner, T Saito, L Blanpain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Specific cell populations may have unique contributions to schizophrenia but may be missed
in studies of homogenate tissue. Here laser capture microdissection followed by RNA …

Strong association of de novo copy number mutations with sporadic schizophrenia

B Xu, JL Roos, S Levy, EJ Van Rensburg, JA Gogos… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is an etiologically heterogeneous psychiatric disease, which exists in familial
and nonfamilial (sporadic) forms. Here, we examine the possibility that rare de novo copy …

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 …

Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

Cardiff University O'Donovan Michael C. 5 Kirov … - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder marked by hallucinations, delusions, cognitive
deficits and apathy, with a heritability estimated at 73–90%(ref.). Inheritance patterns are …

CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls

H Stefansson, A Meyer-Lindenberg, S Steinberg… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
In a small fraction of patients with schizophrenia or autism, alleles of copy-number variants
(CNVs) in their genomes are probably the strongest factors contributing to the pathogenesis …

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 …

Schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders and developmental disorders share specific disruptive coding mutations

E Rees, HDJ Creeth, HG Hwu, WJ Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
People with schizophrenia are enriched for rare coding variants in genes associated with
neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism spectrum disorders and intellectual …

Schizophrenia susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q32 and 8p21

JL Blouin, BA Dombroski, SK Nath, VK Lasseter… - Nature …, 1998 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a common disorder characterized by psychotic symptoms; diagnostic
criteria have been established 1. Family, twin and adoption studies suggest that both genetic …