Largest GWAS (N= 1,126,563) of Alzheimer's disease implicates microglia and immune cells

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50-70% of dementia cases. Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is caused by a combination …

Anti-Neuroinflammatory Effects of Adaptogens: A Mini-Review

D Wróbel-Biedrawa, I Podolak - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Adaptogens are a group of plants that exhibit complex, nonspecific effects on
the human body, increasing its ability to adapt, develop resilience, and survive in stress …

The druggable schizophrenia genome: from repurposing opportunities to unexplored drug targets

SG Lago, S Bahn - NPJ genomic medicine, 2022 - nature.com
There have been no new drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia in several decades and
treatment resistance represents a major unmet clinical need. The drugs that exist are based …

Biophysical modeling of large-scale brain dynamics and applications for computational psychiatry

JD Murray, M Demirtaş, A Anticevic - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
Noninvasive neuroimaging has revolutionized the study of the organization of the human
brain and how its structure and function are altered in psychiatric disorders. A critical …

The association between schizophrenia and the immune system: Review of the evidence from unbiased 'omic-studies'

HC van Mierlo, A Schot, MPM Boks, LD de Witte - Schizophrenia research, 2020 - Elsevier
A role for immune processes in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia has been suggested by
genetic and epidemiological studies, as well as cross-sectional studies on blood and brain …

Diagnosis-and cell type-specific mitochondrial functional pathway signatures in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

JR Glausier, JF Enwright III… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The shared risk factors and clinical features in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
may be linked via mitochondrial dysfunction. However, the severity of mitochondrial …

Independent replications and integrative analyses confirm TRANK1 as a susceptibility gene for bipolar disorder

W Li, X Cai, HJ Li, M Song, CY Zhang, Y Yang… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic analyses for bipolar disorder (BD) have achieved prominent success in Europeans
in recent years, whereas its genetic basis in other populations remains relatively less …

Enhancing discoveries of molecular QTL studies with small sample size using summary statistic imputation

T Wang, Y Liu, Q Yin, J Geng, J Chen… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses of multiomic molecular traits, such as gene
transcription (eQTL), DNA methylation (mQTL) and histone modification (haQTL), have been …

Deep transcriptome sequencing of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex reveals cross-diagnostic and diagnosis-specific RNA expression changes in major psychiatric …

N Akula, S Marenco, K Johnson, N Feng… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite strong evidence of heritability and growing discovery of genetic markers for major
mental illness, little is known about how gene expression in the brain differs across …

A transcriptome-wide association study based on 27 tissues identifies 106 genes potentially relevant for disease pathology in age-related macular degeneration

T Strunz, S Lauwen, C Kiel, A Hollander, BHF Weber - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for late stage age-related macular degeneration
(AMD) have identified 52 independent genetic variants with genome-wide significance at 34 …