Refining analyses of copy number variation identifies specific genes associated with developmental delay

BP Coe, K Witherspoon, JA Rosenfeld, BWM Van Bon… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) are associated with many neurocognitive disorders; however,
these events are typically large, and the underlying causative genes are unclear. We …

Rare loss-of-function variants in SETD1A are associated with schizophrenia and developmental disorders

T Singh, MI Kurki, D Curtis, SM Purcell, L Crooks… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
By analyzing the whole-exome sequences of 4,264 schizophrenia cases, 9,343 controls and
1,077 trios, we identified a genome-wide significant association between rare loss-of …

Systems biology and gene networks in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders

NN Parikshak, MJ Gandal, DH Geschwind - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Genetic and genomic approaches have implicated hundreds of genetic loci in
neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegeneration, but mechanistic understanding …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic control of expression and splicing in developing human brain informs disease mechanisms

RL Walker, G Ramaswami, C Hartl, N Mancuso… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Tissue-specific regulatory regions harbor substantial genetic risk for disease. Because brain
development is a critical epoch for neuropsychiatric disease susceptibility, we characterized …

Germline ETV6 mutations in familial thrombocytopenia and hematologic malignancy

MY Zhang, JE Churpek, SB Keel, T Walsh, MK Lee… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We report germline missense mutations in ETV6 segregating with the dominant transmission
of thrombocytopenia and hematologic malignancy in three unrelated kindreds, defining a …

Neuron-specific signatures in the chromosomal connectome associated with schizophrenia risk

P Rajarajan, T Borrman, W Liao, N Schrode, E Flaherty… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Chromosomal conformations, topologically associated chromatin domains
(TADs) assembling in nested fashion across hundreds of kilobases, and other “three …

Whole-exome sequencing in undiagnosed genetic diseases: interpreting 119 trios

X Zhu, S Petrovski, P Xie, EK Ruzzo, YF Lu… - Genetics in …, 2015 - nature.com
Purpose: Despite the recognized clinical value of exome-based diagnostics, methods for
comprehensive genomic interpretation remain immature. Diagnoses are based on known or …

Phenotypic differences in hiPSC NPCs derived from patients with schizophrenia

K Brennand, JN Savas, Y Kim, N Tran, A Simone… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
Consistent with recent reports indicating that neurons differentiated in vitro from human-
induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are immature relative to those in the human brain …

Exome sequencing in schizophrenia-affected parent–offspring trios reveals risk conferred by protein-coding de novo mutations

DP Howrigan, SA Rose, KE Samocha, M Fromer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Protein-coding de novo mutations (DNMs) are significant risk factors in many
neurodevelopmental disorders, whereas schizophrenia (SCZ) risk associated with DNMs …