[HTML][HTML] Step by step: towards a better understanding of the genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease

JC Lambert, A Ramirez, B Grenier-Boley… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered to have a large genetic component. Our knowledge
of this component has progressed over the last 10 years, thanks notably to the advent of …

[HTML][HTML] Short chain fatty acid metabolism in relation to gut microbiota and genetic variability

G Ramos Meyers, H Samouda, T Bohn - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is widely accepted that the gut microbiota plays a significant role in modulating
inflammatory and immune responses of their host. In recent years, the host-microbiota …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank

G Douaud, S Lee, F Alfaro-Almagro, C Arthofer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
There is strong evidence of brain-related abnormalities in COVID-19,,,,,,,,,,,–. However, it
remains unknown whether the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected in milder …

Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images

B Zhao, T Li, Z Fan, Y Yang, J Shu, X Yang, X Wang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cardiovascular health interacts with cognitive and mental health in complex ways, yet little is
known about the phenotypic and genetic links of heart-brain systems. We quantified heart …

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and risk of psychiatric disorders

J Guo, K Yu, SS Dong, S Yao, Y Rong, H Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Observational studies have reported the correlations between brain imaging-derived
phenotypes (IDPs) and psychiatric disorders; however, whether the relationships are causal …

Replicable brain–phenotype associations require large-scale neuroimaging data

S Liu, A Abdellaoui, KJH Verweij… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural basis of interindividual
differences but the replicability of brain–phenotype associations remains largely unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia

C Doust, P Fontanillas, E Eising, SD Gordon, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by
dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up …

Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading-and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people

E Eising, N Mirza-Schreiber… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The use of spoken and written language is a fundamental human capacity. Individual
differences in reading-and language-related skills are influenced by genetic variation, with …

Genetic insights into human cortical organization and development through genome-wide analyses of 2,347 neuroimaging phenotypes

V Warrier, EM Stauffer, QQ Huang, EM Wigdor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the genetics of the human cerebral cortex is limited both in terms of the
diversity and the anatomical granularity of brain structural phenotypes. Here we conducted a …

Brain imaging before and after COVID-19 in UK Biobank

G Douaud, S Lee, F Alfaro-Almagro, C Arthofer… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
There is strong evidence for brain-related pathologies in COVID-19, some of which could be
a consequence of viral neurotropism, or of neuroinflammation following viral infection. Most …