Conduct disorder

G Fairchild, DJ Hawes, PJ Frick… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Conduct disorder (CD) is a common and highly impairing psychiatric disorder that usually
emerges in childhood or adolescence and is characterized by severe antisocial and …

The key role of epigenetics in human disease prevention and mitigation

AP Feinberg - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Epigenetics in Disease Prevention and Mitigation Epigenetics is the regulation of gene
expression through alterations in DNA or associated factors (other than the DNA sequence) …

Principal Component Analyses (PCA)-based findings in population genetic studies are highly biased and must be reevaluated

E Elhaik - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a multivariate analysis that reduces the
complexity of datasets while preserving data covariance. The outcome can be visualized on …

Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology

W Van Rheenen, RAA Van Der Spek, MK Bakker… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with a lifetime risk
of one in 350 people and an unmet need for disease-modifying therapies. We conducted a …

The DNA methylation in neurological diseases

S Younesian, AM Yousefi, M Momeny, SH Ghaffari… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is critical for the normal development and functioning of the human brain,
such as the proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells, synaptic plasticity, neuronal …

Guidance for DNA methylation studies: statistical insights from the Illumina EPIC array

G Mansell, TJ Gorrie-Stone, Y Bao, M Kumari… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background There has been a steady increase in the number of studies aiming to identify
DNA methylation differences associated with complex phenotypes. Many of the challenges …

Biological hypotheses, risk factors, and biomarkers of schizophrenia

Z Fišar - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Both the discovery of biomarkers of schizophrenia and the verification of biological
hypotheses of schizophrenia are an essential part of the process of understanding the …

A Bayesian framework for multiple trait colocalization from summary association statistics

C Giambartolomei, J Zhenli Liu, W Zhang… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Most genetic variants implicated in complex diseases by genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) are non-coding, making it challenging to understand the …

Characterizing genetic and environmental influences on variable DNA methylation using monozygotic and dizygotic twins

E Hannon, O Knox, K Sugden, J Burrage… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Variation in DNA methylation is being increasingly associated with health and disease
outcomes. Although DNA methylation is hypothesized to be a mechanism by which both …

DNA methylation meta-analysis reveals cellular alterations in psychosis and markers of treatment-resistant schizophrenia

E Hannon, EL Dempster, G Mansell, J Burrage, N Bass… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We performed a systematic analysis of blood DNA methylation profiles from 4483
participants from seven independent cohorts identifying differentially methylated positions …