Genome-wide landscape of RNA-binding protein target site dysregulation reveals a major impact on psychiatric disorder risk

CY Park, J Zhou, AK Wong, KM Chen, CL Theesfeld… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the strong genetic basis of psychiatric disorders, the underlying molecular
mechanisms are largely unmapped. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are responsible for most …

[HTML][HTML] Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric disorders in the human brain

A Bhattacharya, DD Vo, C Jops, M Kim, C Wen… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Methods integrating genetics with transcriptomic reference panels prioritize risk genes and
mechanisms at only a fraction of trait-associated genetic loci, due in part to an overreliance …

Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility

CL Hartl, G Ramaswami, WG Pembroke, S Muller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gene networks have yielded numerous neurobiological insights, yet an integrated view
across brain regions is lacking. We leverage RNA sequencing in 864 samples representing …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide approaches to dissect the roles of RNA binding proteins in translational control: implications for neurological diseases

K Kapeli, GW Yeo - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Translational control of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) is a key aspect of neurobiology, defects
of which can lead to neurological diseases. In response to stimuli, local translation of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

RNA-binding proteins in Mendelian disease

A Castello, B Fischer, MW Hentze, T Preiss - Trends in Genetics, 2013 - cell.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) control all aspects of RNA fate, and defects in their function
underlie a broad spectrum of human pathologies. We focus here on two recent studies that …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated Bayesian analysis of rare exonic variants to identify risk genes for schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders

HT Nguyen, J Bryois, A Kim, A Dobbyn, LM Huckins… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Integrating rare variation from trio family and case–control studies has
successfully implicated specific genes contributing to risk of neurodevelopmental disorders …

Mapping cis-regulatory chromatin contacts in neural cells links neuropsychiatric disorder risk variants to target genes

M Song, X Yang, X Ren, L Maliskova, B Li, IR Jones… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mutations in gene regulatory elements have been associated with a wide range of complex
neuropsychiatric disorders. However, due to their cell-type specificity and difficulties in …

Deep learning predicts DNA methylation regulatory variants in the human brain and elucidates the genetics of psychiatric disorders

J Zhou, Q Chen, PR Braun… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
There is growing evidence for the role of DNA methylation (DNAm) quantitative trait loci
(mQTLs) in the genetics of complex traits, including psychiatric disorders. However, due to …

Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

MJ Gandal, P Zhang, E Hadjimichael, RL Walker… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our understanding of the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and bipolar disorder (BD) …